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mammalian

[muh-may-lee-uhn, -mayl-yuhn] / məˈmeɪ li ən, -ˈmeɪl jən /


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It’s illegal to feed undomesticated mammalian predators, including coyotes, but establishing that a crime occurred required evidence that animal services did not initially find, the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Similarly, the development of the neocortex, which is exclusively mammalian and, according to Lori Marino of the Whale Sanctuary Project, provides for “self-awareness, social cognition, some form of memory, problem solving.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

It wasn’t painful, but after several weeks I developed alpha-gal syndrome, an increasingly common allergy to red meat, dairy and other mammalian food products.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

"We also have the genomes to uncover the molecular basis of these spectacular mammalian adaptations and know where the fossil bats fall in this tree."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Eurasian peoples happened to inherit many more species of domesticable large wild mammalian herbivores than did peoples of the other continents.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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