Meanings of short-beaked in English

There's four species, including one in Australia called the short-beaked echidna.

A lone short-beaked common dolphin has been spotted in Akaroa Harbour.

Barbs may properly be called short-beaked Carriers.

We assume this short-beaked common dolphin has joined this pod for protection or to find food, Mr Crosbie said.

In Aldrovandi's time, in 1600, two sub-breeds existed; but one of them, the short-beaked, is now extinct in Europe.

Sir W. Elliot, however, informs me that he has seen in Madras a short-beaked Runt imported from Cairo.]

Barbs, in short, may be called short-beaked Carriers, bearing the same relation to Carriers that the Tronfo of Aldrovandi does to the common Runt.]

But fears of their imminent disappearance appear to have diminished after a 2007 survey showed 135 of the little-known species of short-beaked dolphins in Chilika.

Short-beaked echidnas are smaller and have longer hair than long-beaked echidnas.

Short-beaked common dolphins feed on a variety of prey, including surface schooling fish species and small mid-water fish and squids.

Short-beaked echidnas seek refuge and, when finding it, lower their body temperature and limit activity, so reducing the amount of food they need for energy.