Maggie Rogers

I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa.

American Musician

Richard G. Scott

Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.

American Clergyman

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

French Diplomat

Lester B. Pearson

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Canadian Politician

Lord Robertson

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

Scottish Diplomat

Oliver Herford

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

American Author

Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

British Statesman

Richard Hammond

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.

English Entertainer

Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

French Novelist

The Notorious B.I.G.

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

Use the term respectfully when referring to indigenous ethnic groups to avoid offense.

Ethnic Sensitivity

Be aware that the term can be seen as pejorative if misused or used to belittle someone.

Not a Slur

Describes unusual smallness in species, not individual size variations.

Animal Size

Often used to highlight contrast when comparing species of markedly varying sizes.

Scale Reference

Implies an object or creature is small compared to others of its type or category.

Relative Smallness

Used metaphorically to describe someone seen as having lesser status or influence.

Figurative Use

Can refer to a person's perceived lesser stature within a specific context or group.

Personal Comparison

 kind ever found in the entirety of the early hominid record the radius the ulna and the humerus that is a human a pygmy of approximately the same size you can see how odd those arms are and when we saw that we said it must be a climber and we predicted what the hand would

Part Ape, Part Human:...

 to the 2.5 centimeters of the southern pygmy squid, these creatures fall into the group of animals known as cephalopods. There are about 500 squid species worldwide, and they live in all the world’s oceans, making them a reliable food source for whales, dolphins,

How squids outsmart...

 And people just come and watch, it's like free performances. And I happened to come by one day when they were performing this piece, which is actually a pygmy dance. And it tells the story of two women who are rivals for the affections of a man.

Chaos in the Heart of...

 want to keep and cherish know more about so all of these things what was that was the reason for me going to Borneo again and again and again the challenge to find the pygmy elephants here's a picture where you can actually see my

Borneo: Paradise Under...

 lifestyle but are much less adapted to water their feet are less webbed and they spend more of their time on land they have rounded shorter snouts with smaller nostrils and they only have one set of incisor teeth pygmy hippos are

4 Adorable Animals That...

 pygmy Paris and four foot long rats in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea is also a nation where over seven hundred languages are spoken my love and interest in Papua New Guinea was motivated by my love and fascination

Encoding culture PIPE...

 she's a fussy eater a pygmy owl won't do her diet is so specialized she needs a partner to help capture it they're searching for a prey who's nearest living relative is the African elephant

Eagles Hunt Prey...

 But they react to foreground sounds. You'll hear that in a second. So we worked very hard to make them as lifelike as possible. So each pygmy has its own behavior, psyche,

Aparna Rao: High-tech...

 the tiny pygmy gecko is a master of the jungle so my newt it could sit on a fingertip he is dwarfed by life in the undergrowth

The Unsinkable Lizard PIPE...

 she's a fussy eater a pygmy owl won't do her diet is so specialized she needs a partner to help capture it

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