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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: thipdars--the winged dragons that guard the queen, or,
as Perry calls them, pterodactyls--rise swiftly from their
rocks and dart lightning-like, toward the center of the
arena. They are huge, powerful reptiles. One of them,
with the advantage which his wings might give him,
would easily be a match for a cave bear or a tarag.
These three, to my consternation, swooped down upon
the tarag as he was gathering himself for a final charge
upon me. They buried their talons in his back and lifted
him bodily from the arena as if he had been a chicken
in the clutches of a hawk.
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