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The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites. [2] [3] [4
This category is for articles which discuss the use of a common (vernacular) name shared by multiple species of mammals which do not correspond to a taxon. Pages in category "Mammal common names" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.
Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene . They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat , with a long snout and prehensile tail.
C. List of mammals of Cambodia; List of mammals of Cameroon; List of mammals of Cape Verde; List of mammals of the Central African Republic; List of mammals of Chad
Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific society, maintains a list of valid species and subspecies, most recently updated in October 2015. [1] This list follows the Society's taxonomy regarding and subspecies.
The giant panda is a vulnerable species The use of love darts by the land snail Monachoides vicinus is a form of sexual selection Adult silk worm. Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica. This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [ 1 ]