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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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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
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mole
small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet
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shrew, shrewmouse
small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles
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Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus, hedgehog
small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines
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tendrac, tenrec
small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog
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Potamogale velox, otter shrew, potamogale
amphibious African insectivorous mammal that resembles an otter
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blower, cetacean, cetacean mammal
large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
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sea cow, sirenian, sirenian mammal
any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
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pinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal
aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
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fissiped, fissiped mammal
terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons
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canid, canine
any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
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felid, feline
any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
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bear
a massive carnivorous or omnivorous mammal with a long shaggy coat and strong claws
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viverrine, viverrine mammal
small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World
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fruit bat, megabat
large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit
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carnivorous bat, microbat
typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution
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Duplicidentata
in former classifications considered a suborder of Rodentia coextensive with the order Lagomorpha: gnawing animals
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leporid, leporid mammal
rabbits and hares
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coney, cony, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit
small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
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mouse
any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
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rat
any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
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murine
a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae
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water rat
any of various amphibious rats
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New World mouse
a variety of rodent
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Ondatra zibethica, muskrat, musquash
beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur
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Florida water rat, Neofiber alleni, round-tailed muskrat
of Florida wetlands
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Sigmodon hispidus, cotton rat
destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America
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wood rat, wood-rat
any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
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hamster
short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
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gerbil, gerbille
small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
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lemming
any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution
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hedgehog, porcupine
relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
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jumping mouse
any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America
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jerboa
mouselike jumping rodent
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dormouse
small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather
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squirrel
a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
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prairie dog, prairie marmot
any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry
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marmot
stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter
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beaver
large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
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Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver, sewellel
bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent
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cavy
short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent
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Dolichotis patagonum, mara
hare-like rodent of the pampas of Argentina
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Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, capibara, capybara
pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent
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Dasyprocta aguti, agouti
agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food
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Cuniculus paca, paca
large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food
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mountain paca
rodent of mountains of western South America
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Myocastor coypus, coypu, nutria
aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur
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Chinchilla laniger, chinchilla
small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur
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mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha
a rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity
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Lagostomus maximus, chinchillon, viscacha
gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas
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abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla
ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes
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mole rat
furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East
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mole rat
African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance
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sand rat
small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas
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dinocerate
an extinct ungulate
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Procavia capensis, rock hyrax, rock rabbit
hyrax that lives in rocky areas
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odd-toed ungulate, perissodactyl, perissodactyl mammal
placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot
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artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate
placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
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stag
adult male deer
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mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal
fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals
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armadillo
burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
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sloth, tree sloth
any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
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megatherian, megatherian mammal, megatheriid
a large extinct ground sloth
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mylodontid
a variety of extinct edentate
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mylodon
large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America
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New World anteater, anteater
any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
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simian
an ape or monkey
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ape
any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
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anthropoid
any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
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hominoid
a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea
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hominid
a primate of the family Hominidae
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monkey
any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
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pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew, pentail
brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia
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prosimian
primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits
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lemur
large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails
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tarsier
nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates
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Cynocephalus variegatus
a variety of flying lemur
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elephant
five-toed pachyderm
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mastodon, mastodont
extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
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procyonid
plantigrade carnivorous mammals