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mammals

noun as in animal

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Patients who found it difficult to talk about their problems in the office opened up once they got in the water with these empathetic mammals.

Overwhelmed by these exotic sights, this visitor completely overlooked the presence of small, shrew-like mammals—the very creatures whose descendants would, eventually, inherit the earth.

That made them vulnerable to the mammals that arrived with European settlers in the 19th century.

“My main goal was to spread awareness about the laws and protecting our beloved marine mammals here,” she said, “not to have this whole $20,000-reward-if-you-find-him-type thing.”

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They had previously been characterized as entirely herbivorous, like gorillas, Goodall observed them hunting, killing and eating small mammals such as bush pigs and colobus monkeys, by any standard a complicated collaborative enterprise.

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

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