Citations:imp

English citations of imp

1. A baby Tasmanian devil.
   • 2013 December 31, “2013 Animal Conservation Achievements”, in Alma Park Zoo‎^[1]:

     Alma Park Zoo’s Tasmanian Devil Program is continuing to contribute to enhancing the genetic diversity of Tasmanian Devils with four new imps arriving this year.

   • 2015, Rebecca E. Hirsch, “The Life Cycle of Siberian Tigers”, in Siberian Tigers: Camouflaged Hunting Mammals (Comparing Animal Traits), Minneapolis, Minn.: Lerner Publications Company, →ISBN, page 28:

     Siberian Tigers vs. Tasmanian Devils […] Tasmanian devils are marsupials, mammals with pouches. Females give birth to tiny, undeveloped babies called imps. About twenty to thirty imps are born at one time. The imps race to survive. They crawl about 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) to their mother's pouch. The first few to arrive attach themselves to the mother's four nipples. Only these four imps survive.

   • 2015, Shelagh Mazey, Legacy of Van Diemen's Land, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2015 →ISBN.

     "Probably two males were fighting over a female," says an old lag knowledgeably, "or a female was protecting her young imps."

   • 2011, Alastair Sharp, Devil Whisperer, iUniverse, 2011 →ISBN.

     While she let him touch her pouch he knew he must not try to touch the imps.