mammals
Example Sentences
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Despite living in water, manatees were mammals like us.
From Literature
Animals, like pocket gophers, deer mice, shrews, voles, and other small mammals, were still in their winter burrows.
From Literature
The decline of lions and pandas often captures global attention, but a quieter and potentially more damaging crisis is unfolding among small mammals.
From Science Daily
Semi-natural grassland also continues to be lost, despite being seen as a priority habitat and vital for a whole range of plants, fungi, insects, ground-nesting birds, small mammals and reptiles.
From BBC
"Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in groups where only one female breeds," said Dyble.
From Science Daily
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