All 12 Uses
species
in
Life of Pi
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- In theory—that is, as a simple physical possibility—an animal could pick up and go, flaunting all the social conventions and boundaries proper to its species.†
Chpt 1-4species = a similar group of animals or plants
- But such an event is less likely to happen than for a member of our own species, say a shopkeeper with all the usual ties—to family, to friends, to society—to drop everything and walk away from his life with only the spare change in his pockets and the clothes on his frame.†
Chpt 1-4
- Finding within it all the places it needs—a lookout, a place for resting, for eating and drinking, for bathing, for grooming, etc. —and finding that there is no need to go hunting, food appearing six days a week, an animal will take possession of its zoo space in the same way it would lay claim to a new space in the wild, exploring it and marking it out in the normal ways of its species, with sprays of urine perhaps.†
Chpt 1-4
- In a general way we mean how our species' excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey.†
Chpt 5-8
- But I learned at my expense that Father believed there was another animal even more dangerous than us, and one that was extremely common, too, found on every continent, in every habitat: the redoubtable species Animalus anthropomorphicus, the animal as seen through human eyes.†
Chpt 5-8
- Without it, no species would survive.†
Chpt 9-12
- We fed salt to some Nilgiri tahrs—a species of wild goat—in a national park.†
Chpt 17-20
- endangered species
Chpt 33-36 *
- The image of a new species popped into my head: the rare seafaring green orang-utan.†
Chpt 45-48
- Either there was soil deeper down, or this species of tree was a remarkable instance of a commensal or a parasite.†
Chpt 89-92
- After some hours a member of my own species found me.†
Chpt 93-96
- What you don't realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals.†
Chpt 97-100
Definitions:
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(1)
(species) a group of animals or plants that are similar -- typically identified as belonging to the same group when they are of a kind that can reproduce new members of the group together
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)