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A rook skull The rook is a very social bird; in the evenings they gather in large flocks, often in thousands. Rooks are highly gregarious birds and are generally seen in flocks of various sizes. Males and females pair-bond for life and pairs stay together within flocks.
Animal Friends, [186] also known as the Animal Buddies, [187] Amicable Animals, [188] and Jungle Buddies, [189] are friendly animals who the Kongs can ride, transform into, or have perform various tasks. Among the known animal friends are: Rambi - An Indian rhinoceros who originated in Donkey Kong Country, where he can ram through enemies and ...
The rook rifle was developed in 1883 by the gun-makers Holland & Holland as a breech-loading equivalent of the muzzle-loading pea rifle. [2] Holland & Holland made a particular specialty of producing rook rifles, reportedly selling around 5,000 of them in the late 1800s. Westley Richards and W.W. Greener were also noted for their rook rifles. [2]
Rook shooting was a previously popular sport in the United Kingdom, in which young rooks were shot from tree branches, often using purpose-built rifles known as rook rifles. Rook shooting could serve as a form of pest control , a blood sport making living targets of animals, or a form of hunting for edible birds.
A prehistoric world set in the Mechazoic era is populated by hybrid reptile-tools called Reptools and hybrid dinosaur-trucks called Dinotrux. Two best friends, Ty Rux, who is a good Tyrannosaurus Trux, and Revvit, who is a Rotilian Reptool, must team up with other inhabitants of the world to defend their community and their work from an evil T-Trux named "D-Structs".
Various Black Rock Shooter elements have been made available for the Japanese PlayStation Home. [40] Characters from Black Rock Shooter also appear in the PSP game Nendoroid Generation, produced by Namco Bandai, Good Smile Company and Banpresto, based on the Nendoroid series of figures. [41] The game was released on February 23, 2012.
A cynocephalus. From the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).. The characteristic of cynocephaly, or cynocephalus (/ s aɪ n oʊ ˈ s ɛ f ə l i /), having the head of a canid, typically that of a dog or jackal, is a widely attested mythical phenomenon existing in many different forms and contexts.
Rook, 2008 album by Shearwater; The Rook, a 2011 supernatural thriller by Daniel O'Malley. The Rook, a TV series on Starz; Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear; Rook (rocket), a British rocket launched between 1959 and 1972; Rook (surname) Qolla l-Bajda Battery or Rook, a discothèque in Żebbuġ, Gozo, Malta