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6 sentences with 'specimens'

Example sentences and phrases with the word specimens and other words derived from it.


• « -It would be easier to study dead specimens," he says, "but there is the disadvantage that the species is cannibalistic. »
• « While the men collected minerals and specimens of plants and animals, the overly curious Lewis sampled minerals by tasting them and at one point became seriously ill. »
• « Several specimens of salamander fish are being studied at the Ohio Zoo where there is a special section for the observation of the smallest and strangest creatures on our planet. »
• « Teacher Colberg gave me some of her most prized shell specimens, and when another group visited the Museum of Natural History in New York, they brought me a box full of the most wonderful specimens. »
• « Just when he was beginning to regret his venture (the data was rather scarce and already known), he had his great reward: he discovered two specimens of a tiny animal that was thought to be extinct: the "dwarf hairy-eared lemur" (Allocebus trichotis, for science). »
• « On the one hand," Calandra comments, "there is no organised system for the provision of such animals that would allow our researchers to have healthy monkeys (an essential condition); on the other hand, as a direct consequence of the above, it is often necessary to pay high prices to people who make a living from the trade in wild animals (an illegal activity, by the way) for specimens that arrive at the laboratories without any sanitary control". »

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