| They include the extraordinary bill of the platypus, an egg-laying semiaquatic mammal from Australia. |
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| The result is that some 12 percent of mammal species and 11 percent of birds and plants are threatened with extinction. |
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| Nearly a quarter of all mammal species are bats, and they are the only winged animals in the class Mammalia. |
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| Between them, rodents and bats make up more than 60 percent of all mammal species. |
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| The session begins with a mammal expert explaining more about water voles, otters and mink. |
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| Still another feature disqualifying many mammal species from domestication is the lack of suitable social structure. |
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| We thus obtained measures of environmental and mammal community characteristics, independent of the discriminant analyses of macrohabitats. |
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| Although game birds and birds of prey have been reintroduced before, no native mammal has ever been deliberately brought back to Britain. |
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| The only Australian fossorial mammal is the marsupial mole, Notoryctes typhlops. |
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| Another 20 unknown contacts were countermined in harbours as the team responded to USN unmanned vehicle or marine mammal searches. |
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| Here, long-eared hedgehog, northern three-toed jerboa, gray hamster, and corsac fox are among the more common mammal residents. |
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| Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. |
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| This instinct caused animals to form close-knit, evenly spaced groups, as seen in real mammal herds and fish schools. |
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| Using research materials, they find out more about this mammal and use the information to create a water vole fact file. |
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| In the blessed Yaak, however, not a single mammal has gone extinct since the end of the Ice Age. |
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| The main suspect to date is the civet cat, a cat-like mammal closely related to the mongoose. |
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| The carcass of the 27 ft mammal was washed-up and became stuck on rocks at Oxwich Bay in the Gower peninsula. |
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| The Javan rhinoceros is often called the rarest large mammal on earth and perhaps the most endangered. |
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| Dolphins, for example, descend from a hoofed mammal that adapted to life in the ocean about 50 million years ago. |
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| And the little mammal makes her way out in the morning sun, looking for food to raise her youngsters. |
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| The teeth and their pattern of wear are unlike that seen in any modern mammal so what this animal ate is something of a mystery. |
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| It contains at least 127 mammal species, including the Sumatran elephant, Sumatran tiger, Sumatran rhinoceros, and Sumatran orangutan. |
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| Pelycosaur, therapsid, and mammal represent three evolutionary grades in a single progressive evolutionary axis. |
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| The building's exterior is largely unchanged, except that the carved mammal heads on the keystones of the first floor windows have been removed. |
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| When we say someone is a wolf in sheep's clothing, we don't literally mean that he's a large land mammal related to a dog, wearing wool. |
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| It is the latest stage in a programme aimed at re-establishing the mammal in the county. |
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| The mammal was spotted by a member of the public and was finally refloated and sent safely on its way today after a four-and-a-half-hour effort. |
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| It was comparable to the other two sites in the composition and structure of both the overstorey vegetation and small mammal communities. |
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| The xerophiles are typical for the most part of the mammal populations of the Lesser Caucasus. |
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| Like some other mammal taxa, but unlike rabbits and other lagomorphs, male rodents have a baculum. |
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| Significant mammal records include the yellow-bellied weasel and the crab-eating mongoose, both regarded as rare and in need of conservation. |
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| Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons. |
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| When a mammal prepares for hibernation, its body temperature lowers to near-freezing temperature. |
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| Madagascar, a large, tropical island off the east coast of Africa, isn't the kind of place you'd expect to find a mammal that hibernates. |
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| Cloning will be used for far more than replicating a mammal or reproducing a child. |
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| They should thrive on the island's abundant small mammal populations, and now bring the number of owl species nesting on the island to three. |
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| A mature bull, at twice the weight of a red deer, is by far our largest resident mammal and a most impressive animal by any standard. |
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| The dugong is the only living herbivorous mammal that spends its entire life in the sea. |
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| For example, a thoroughbred is a type of a horse, which is an equid, which is a mammal and so on. |
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| The two early mammal species were probably predators, not scavengers, say the scientists. |
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| The mammal society said these features could be used to identify hotspots where action could be taken to save animal lives. |
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| The death of the mammal should not blind us to the excellence of the steps taken to save its life. |
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| The hedgehog is an old world mammal that has possibly changed little over a million years. |
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| Improved road design could mean fewer squashed hedgehogs and other mammal casualties, according to experts. |
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| It is the largest carnivorous mammal ever to have lived in Australia and the largest known marsupial carnivore in the world. |
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| It is a medium-sized arboreal gliding mammal which hangs upside down in trees, leaping into the air to glide in search of fruit to eat. |
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| These once hosted and boosted millions of bison, a large North American mammal of the buffalo tribe. |
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| It is a bit like puzzling over how a mammal could come to lay an egg and then being shown a duck-billed platypus. |
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| One mammal I have studied, the Australian brush-tailed possum, harms mistletoe in a direct way, by devouring it. |
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| Many early mammal taxa were superficially rodent-like, such as the extinct multituberculates. |
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| In the early 1990s the greater mouse-eared bat became the first British mammal to become extinct since the wolf. |
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| Rabbits don't qualify as saltatorial because they don't really hop.... To really be saltatorial, a mammal would need to be bipedal. |
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| They'll see that a horrible pong to one mammal might be a fragrant rose to the nose of another! |
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| This is especially useful in treating a mammal susceptible to or having an undesirable Gram-positive eubacterial infection. |
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| They are only the third mammal type, after human beings and tamarin monkeys, to have been shown to possess this ability. |
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| Like 90 percent of bird species, but only 3 percent of mammal species, they're monogamous, pair-bonded animals. |
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| Some mammals can distinguish between and respond to the alarm calls of other mammal and bird species. |
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| Certainly, a lot of changes would have to occur for a land mammal to live in the sea. |
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| Recently, the rat became the third mammal for which the complete genome was sequenced. |
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| The domestic animal is the first mammal known to die of the disease in Europe. |
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| On March 6, we listed the Buena Vista Lake shrew, a tiny insect-eating mammal native to California's southern San Joaquin Valley, as endangered. |
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| It is termed as the perfect predator, a mammal that can thrive in almost any habitat on earth. |
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| Some mammal teeth from the Paleocene of France show characters of both bats and insectivores. |
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| And I immediately felt that inside me was this inland ocean with its population of one, this little sea mammal who was swimming around. |
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| The first assumption is that mast crops and small mammal populations are synchronized across a wide range. |
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| The sperm whale, a toothed mammal whose lower jaw resembles a vast surfboard with peaked crenellations at its edges, has been found at 3000 metres. |
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| The FFI scientists also heard reports of the existence of a seldom-seen large mammal related to goats or cattle and known to the local people as khting vor, the FFI said. |
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| When the vessel was first discovered last year, it contained the leg bone of a tapir, a medium-size mammal related to both the horse and the rhinoceros. |
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| The giraffe is the biggest ruminant and the tallest mammal in the world. |
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| The national animal is an extremely rare mammal called the takin. |
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| Visitors to the site where a humpback whale beached itself at the weekend were shocked to discover the mammal had already been put down yesterday. |
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| The boy screamed a deep guttural scream that did not seem to belong to any mammal I knew of. |
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| But along with whales, their mammal cousins, dolphins may face more danger over the long term below the surface of the sea. |
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| The mammal species that are present include goats, foxes, anteaters, rabbits and bats, while the birds are hawks, partridges, daras, pigeons, troupials and a type of cardinal. |
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| Fernandez-Duque discovered that owl monkeys are the only reliably monogamous mammal species. |
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| In the 1980s their numbers dipped to dangerously low levels due to ivory poaching, but an effort to bring back the tusked mammal has had considerable success. |
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| And, of course, exposure to a prairie dog or other little mammal from that Texas distributor, but not exposure to monkeys as simian lovers are quick to point out. |
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| The large mammal snorted, as a voice spoke suddenly from atop the beast. |
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| The solenodons diverged from all other mammal groups an incredible 76 million years ago and were, until recently, among the dominant predators of the West Indies. |
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| There really is an endearing quality to this thousand-pound-plus hunk of marine mammal as I watch it grab floating heads of lettuce to nosh just below the surface. |
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| What other mammal continues to indulge in sexual activity long after it can successfully compete with younger, fitter males for the favours of the harem? |
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| No mammal of today has a comparable anatomy of the limbs, but several extinct groups like the Eocene to Pleistocene chalicotheres show similar adaptations. |
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| There's a bass hiding in there, peeking out from behind the overdriven rhythm guitars and ponderously formless solos like a shy mammal trying not to be seen. |
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| Studies of the preserved dung and animal remains are beginning to provide insight into large mammal paleobiology and community development during the Holocene. |
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| Studies of highly kin-structured mammal societies have revealed the importance of natal philopatry in determining the distribution of genetic variation within populations. |
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| Latin America has 7 odd's 25 biologically richest ecoregions, containing between them 46,000 plant, 1,597 amphibian, 1,208 rep 1,267 bird and 575 mammal species. |
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| This small forest is rich in mammal species like the red-tailed and grivet monkeys, the dwarf bush baby, the Potto and the African and palm civets. |
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| Closer in appearance to the guinea pig than the reviled rat, the mammal likely fed on sea grass in ancient lagoons near the northwestern Venezuelan coast. |
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| Other marine mammal prey species include nearly 20 species of seal, sea lion and fur seal. |
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| Unlike any other mammal species whose social structure is known, residents live with their mothers for their entire lives. |
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| In contrast, the marine mammal prey of transients hear well underwater at the frequencies used in killer whale calls. |
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| The whale watching industry provides ecotourists and marine mammal enthusiasts the opportunity to see groups of gray whales as they migrate. |
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| The underwater vocals of Weddell seals can last 70 seconds, which is long for a marine mammal call. |
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| The ferret is the domesticated form of the European Polecat, a mammal belonging to the weasel genus of the family Mustelidae. |
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| The naturalist goes in search of an armour-plated mammal known as the pink fairy armadillo. |
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| As with a terrestrial mammal breathing out on a cold day, a small cloud of 'steam' appears. |
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| During inhalation, about twice as much oxygen is absorbed by the lung tissue as in a land mammal. |
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| The United States Congress passed the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 sustain the marine mammal population. |
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| Marine mammal adaptation to an aquatic lifestyle varies considerably between species. |
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| They also discuss a qulliq, a lamp that uses mammal blubber as fuel and arctic cotton as a wick. |
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| The high degree of overlap between marine mammal species richness and areas of human impact on the environment is of concern. |
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| It is the only marine mammal that catches fish with its forepaws rather than with its teeth. |
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| As with most mammal hybrids, the less closely related the parents, the more likely the offspring will be sterile. |
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| The Middle East blind mole rat was the first mammal for which Seismic communication was documented. |
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| Wildlife includes 102 mammal species, 49 amphibian, 109 reptilian, 561 bird species and more. |
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| There are no endemic mammal species in Great Britain, although four distinct subspecies of rodents have arisen on small islands. |
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| Across Europe, over five million European hares are shot each year, making it probably the most important game mammal on the continent. |
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| The organization of the retina is quite similar to that of a typical mammal. |
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| A diverse array of marine mammal species strand in NC, reflecting the rich biodiversity of cetacean and pinniped fauna in nearby waters. |
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| Here we have an oviparous mammal that is also an insectivore and a monotreme. |
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| It is also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, next to the Etruscan shrew. |
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| Young apple trees are also prone to mammal pests like mice and deer, which feed on the soft bark of the trees, especially in winter. |
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| The sea is also a feeding ground for Atlantic salmon and several marine mammal species. |
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| As a result, Central America currently has 41 mammal species of Neotropical origin, compared to only 3 for temperate North America. |
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| Her body temperature does not decrease during this period as it would for a typical mammal in hibernation. |
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| In July 1924 W N Blair found an unknown species of shrew on Gugh and sent it to the mammal expert, Mr Hinton, at the British Museum. |
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| It has roughly twice as many species as the largest of the mammal orders, the Rodentia. |
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| All these factors have led to Australia's having the highest mammal extinction rate of any country in the world. |
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| Females of all mammal species nurse their young with milk, secreted from the mammary glands. |
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| When a mammal embryo develops, its middle ear appears to form in a pop-and-patch way that seals one end with substandard, infection-prone tissue. |
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| A skinny, scraggy rat with a Pinocchio-sized snout, the solenodon is descended from the first mammal on Earth. |
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| The small mammal fragments include those identified only to size and class and small cervids. |
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| Researchers announced Thursday a rare discovery of a new species of mammal called the olinguito. |
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| The Mungaroona Range Nature Reserve is in NW Western Australia, and the numbat is the state mammal emblem. |
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| This index can be effectively used to determine the number of herbivore and mammal species numbers within a given area. |
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| The grateful sea mammal put on a display for its equally exhausted rescuers. |
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| Marie in the 18th century or may recall a disparagement intended to compare early settlers in Michigan with the vicious mammal. |
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| The red deer is the largest native mammal species, and is common throughout England, Scotland and Wales. |
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| Among mammal species are tapir, collared peccary, and howler, spider, squirrel, and white-faced monkeys. |
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| The migrations of Porcupine caribou herds are among the longest of any terrestrial mammal. |
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| Bone char, a porous, black, granular material primarily used for filtration and also as a black pigment, is produced by charring mammal bones. |
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| The majority of the mammal species that existed in the Mesozoic Era were multituberculates, eutriconodonts and spalacotheriids. |
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| Molecular studies based on DNA analysis have suggested new relationships among mammal families over the last few years. |
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| There are around 5450 species of mammal, depending on which authority is cited. |
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| On the mammal front, vicuna, viscachas, and Andean foxes are also commonly seen. |
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| Two-year-old springer spaniel Leia alerted her owner, Rich Wilcock, to the sea mammal that had washed up on the Criccieth shoreline. |
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| Cross of the ROM's mammal section, coyotes or brush wolves as they were then called were at that time restricted to northwestern Ontario. |
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| Face flies hibernate in large numbers as unmated adults in buildings, mammal burrows, and in other protected places, whether heated or not. |
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| This impressive mammal seemed on the verge of extinction, a victim of enlightenment and manners and corporate groupspeak. |
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| There are 55 mammal species in Ireland and of them only 26 land mammal species are considered native to Ireland. |
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| Bovids typically make up 60 percent to 80 percent of the mammal fossils found at East African fossil sites. |
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| On the same day, he presented his mammal and bird specimens to the Zoological Society. |
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| The semiaquatic mammal is sometimes hunted for its meat and hide. |
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| The United States is home to 428 mammal species, 784 bird species, 311 reptile species, and 295 amphibian species. |
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| The islands' only native terrestrial mammal, the warrah, was hunted to extinction by European settlers. |
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| The polar bear is a marine mammal because it spends many months of the year at sea. |
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| On 6 January 2008, it was revealed Emin's proposal was a lifesize model of a group of four meerkats, the desert mammal. |
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| However, it is the only living marine mammal with powerful, large limbs and feet that allow them to cover miles on foot and run on land. |
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| Chaetodipus was identified by the presence of bunodont, bicolumnar molars and was the smallest mammal in the sample. |
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| It harbors 38 mammal species and includes nine species that are endemic or near endemic, several of which are limited to montane habitats. |
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| Many species of gull will feed on seabird and sea mammal carrion when the opportunity arises, as will giant petrels. |
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| Other populations have not been as well studied, although specialized fish and mammal eating killer whales have been distinguished elsewhere. |
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| With only one endemic mammal, 6 endemic bird species and no amphibians, reptiles constitute the most relevant Socotran vertebrate fauna with 31 species. |
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| From the present 179 bird and 25 mammal species, about 14 are found either on Buru only or also on a few nearby islands, the most notable being the wild pig Buru babirusa. |
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| The final host is the waterfowl or mammal that consumes the shrimp. |
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| Marine fish and mammal were obtained from Danish coastal waters. |
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| Around 1,100 land vertebrate species can be found in the Philippines including over 100 mammal species and 170 bird species not thought to exist elsewhere. |
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| A teamof 15 artists spent twomonths working on the sculpture to draw attention to the plight of the Arctic mammal and the impact of global warming on the icecaps. |
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| A rare mammal named Manul cat was caught in the suburb of Astana, the breed is believed to be the ancestor of all cats, according to Kazinform International News Agency. |
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| We examined the effects of mammal foraging on the availability of soil nutrients, using diggings made by the brush-tailed bettong or woylie as a model. |
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| Researchers analyzed social bonds in behavioral data from a long-term study of the rock hyrax, a small mammal that lives in colonies across Africa and the Middle East. |
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| But furious campaigners say it will take decades for the land to revegetate in an area which is currently home to rare mammal species, including otters and muntjac deer. |
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| Other fossils collected with the mammal teeth include a dermatemydid turtle and an ariid catfish, which do not provide any additional evidence for the age of the locality. |
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| The study found that 69 species of birds, including birds of prey, as well as mammal species such as raccoon dogs inhabit the area, the officials said. |
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| Most polar bears elsewhere will never have access to these alternatives, except for the marine mammal carcasses that are important wherever they occur. |
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| But there are 188 mammal species on the critically endangered list including the Iberian lynx, which numbers less than 150, and the western gorilla. |
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| But water voles have rapidly disappeared from much of the landscape, experiencing the most serious decline of any wild mammal over the last century. |
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| The fur of the Arctic fox provides the best insulation of any mammal. |
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| The Asian musk shrew, also called the Asian house shrew, is a small mole-like mammal belonging to the family Soricidae, and wild rats are classified in the family Muridae. |
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| In nature, dermestids can be found on old, dry carcasses, in bird and mammal nests, while the adults of some species visit flowers, where they feed on pollen and nectar. |
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| Nevertheless, it does appear that many of the processes of mate choice and sexual selection described for bird and mammal leks also apply to anuran choruses. |
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| More recently, Sir Ian Wilmut, the man who was responsible for the first cloning of a mammal with Dolly the Sheep in 1996, was a graduate student at Darwin College. |
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| No mammal species are native on Diego Garcia, with no record of bats. |
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| The only native land mammal when humans arrived was the Arctic fox, which came to the island at the end of the ice age, walking over the frozen sea. |
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| In contrast with the Arctic tundra, the Antarctic tundra lacks a large mammal fauna, mostly due to its physical isolation from the other continents. |
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| In the United States, the best known are the SeaWorld marine mammal parks. |
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| In modern popular culture, pinnipeds are often depicted as playful and comical figures based on their performances in zoos, circuses and marine mammal parks. |
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| In these formations, one of the earliest dinosaurs, Staurikosaurus, as well as the mammal ancestors Brasilitherium and Brasilodon have been discovered. |
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| Total species range is highly variable for marine mammal species. |
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| Although marsupials are the most prominent mammals in Australia, many rodents, all belonging to the subfamily Murinae, are among the continent's mammal species. |
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| In addition to this, their inner ear is unusual for that of a mammal due to the large trabeculation of the posterior ventral skull between the ears. |
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| This system has never been suggested for a mammal in the past, but reptiles, amphibia, birds, and crickets have been shown to have a direct air pathway between the tympana. |
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| Budyko about the sudden demise of large Ice Age mammal populations on different continents and at different times coincided with the arrival of humans. |
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| Living mammal species can be identified by the presence of sweat glands, including those that are specialized to produce milk to nourish their young. |
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| Armor Gear's logo depicts the Nine-Banded Armadillo, the resilient football-shaped mammal protected by its own rugged suit of armor wherever it goes. |
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| Probable marine mammal coprolitic material has also been collected. |
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| The life ways and economy of indigenous peoples of the Russian North are based upon reindeer herding, fishing, terrestrial and sea mammal hunting, and trapping. |
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| The team used MRI scanners to analyse the arrangement of canals and eye muscles in 51 species of mammal including giraffes, camels and zebra, tree shrews, bats and sloths. |
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| In the study area during the 16 survey cruises, 29 marine mammal species were encountered, including 22 cetaceans, 6 pinnipeds, and a single mustelid species. |
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| There are 266 mammal species and 780 bird species in Russia. |
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| Nocturnal marsupials, such as cuscus and bandicoots, make up the majority of the mammal species, and introduced mammals include Malayan civets and wild pigs. |
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| The slow loris is a nocturnal mammal found in south and southeast Asia. |
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| The most commonly viewed wild mammal is the vervet monkey, which has been known to grab food under the nose of unsuspecting guests at the Fish River Sun Resort. |
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| The quagga is a placental mammal, a group also called Eutheria by scientists. |
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| Perhaps 10 to 30 percent of Earth's mammal, bird, and amphibian species are facing extinction. |
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| Along with humpback whales, gray whales make the longest migration of any marine mammal. |
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| This side project was dubbed Fruit Bats, named after a type of large, flying, fruit-eating tropical mammal. |
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| The conservation status of the Cape mountain zebra, a rare and endangered mammal, was even worse than that of the bontebok. |
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| It is a furry mammal, with a bark as winsome as any leal and faithful Labrador. |
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| The chances of survival for South Africa's most endangered mammal, the riverine rabbit, looks even more desperate than has commonly been feared. |
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| Familiar national outlines disappear as a linear design emerges that suggests the skeletal remains of some ancient mammal. |
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| The egg-laying platypus of Australia is the world's most poisonous mammal. |
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| Analysis of these fossils showed the ancient creature to be a small mammal, possibly distantly related to the modern scaly anteater known as the pangolin. |
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| The tiny mammal, yet to be named, is the first Parma Wallaby to be born at the Pembrokeshire attraction as part of a European breeding programme. |
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| Then there's the solenodon, an ancient mammal, the Sunda pangolin, which has armour made of keratin, and Priam's birdwing butterfly, the largest on earth. |
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| Members of the public can help by sending any photos to the Times of Oman so the same can be forwarded to the scientists for study of this unique sea mammal. |
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