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mammal

noun as in animal

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Dellaire told me that while no marine mammals have been found yet infected with SARS-CoV-2, “…beluga whales and dolphins have been found to be infected by related gammacoronaviruses.”

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In some intriguing cases, that loss of genes isn’t known to cause disease symptoms in any other mammals.

With 45 species of mammals and more than 200 species of birds from six continents, the refuge is more biodiverse than almost any area in the Arctic.

A yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse has shattered the world record as the highest-dwelling mammal yet documented.

Many sleep discoveries first made in flies have been verified in mammals.

The term “gestation,” for instance, is derived from the Latin verb gestāre, used to describe a mammal carrying a burden.

A flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, from an infected little mammal—usually a rat—can hop from the dying rat onto a human and bite it.

Fernandez-Duque discovered that owl monkeys are the only reliably monogamous mammal species.

If you like mammal species from the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue")...

Nicaragua: Nicaragua boasts not one, but two species of everyone's favorite armored mammal, the armadillo.

No insect—so far as I can remember—has a thick neck; nor has any mammal or bird a thin one, like the wasp, bee, or fly.

Without it a mammal will perish in less than three minutes; hence there is no need of the body so urgent as that of oxygen.

The bat's secret appears to be that he is not the bird-mammal, but the mammal-insect: economy of tissue, hibernation.

Once more the ever-hungry little mammal claimed the spoils of victory.

Then Quawteaht a second time gave strength and down the mammal plunged dragging with him the second Thunder Bird.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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