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female mammal
animals that nourish their young with milk
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tusker
any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)
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prototherian
primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea
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metatherian
primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas
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eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
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fossorial mammal
a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging
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egg-laying mammal, monotreme
the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria
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marsupial, pouched mammal
mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
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farm animal, livestock, stock
any animals kept for use or profit
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bull
mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
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cow
mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'
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yearling
an animal in its second year
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buck
mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
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doe
mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'
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insectivore
small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
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aquatic mammal
whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals
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carnivore
a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
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Fissipedia
in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora
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Orycteropus afer, aardvark, ant bear, anteater
nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
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bat, chiropteran
nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
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gnawing mammal, lagomorph
relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing
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gnawer, rodent
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
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naked mole rat
fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites
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Damaraland mole rat
colonial mole rat of western Africa; similar to naked mole rat
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Ungulata
in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
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hoofed mammal, ungulate
any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
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Unguiculata
in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans
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unguiculate, unguiculate mammal
a mammal having nails or claws
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coney, cony, das, dassie, hyrax
any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
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pachyderm
any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus
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edentate
primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America
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anteater, pangolin, scaly anteater
toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
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primate
any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
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tree shrew
insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout
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colugo, flying cat, flying lemur
arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps
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proboscidean, proboscidian
massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk
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plantigrade, plantigrade mammal
an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
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digitigrade, digitigrade mammal
an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
