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  2. Cheek pouch - Wikipedia

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    Monkeys have open cheek pouches within the oral cavity, but they open out in some rodents of America. Hence the name "diplostomes" is associated with them, which means "two mouths." In some rodents, such as hamsters , the cheek pouches are remarkably developed; they form two bags ranging from the mouth to the front of the shoulders.

  3. Golden hamster - Wikipedia

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    The skin of the holotype specimen is kept at the Natural History Museum in London. [7] A yellow-colored golden hamster. In 1930, Israel Aharoni, a zoologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, captured a mother hamster and her litter of pups in Aleppo, Syria. The hamsters were bred in Jerusalem as laboratory animals.

  4. Pouch (marsupial) - Wikipedia

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    Kangaroo joey inside the pouch Female eastern grey kangaroo with mature joey in pouch. The pouch is a distinguishing feature of female marsupials, monotremes [1] [2] [3] (and rarely in the males as in the yapok [4] and the extinct thylacine); the name marsupial is derived from the Latin marsupium, meaning "pouch".

  5. Marsupial - Wikipedia

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    A pouch is present in most, but not all, species. Many marsupials have a permanent bag, whereas in others the pouch develops during gestation, as with the shrew opossum, where the young are hidden only by skin folds or in the fur of the mother. The arrangement of the pouch is variable to allow the offspring to receive maximum protection.

  6. Southern marsupial mole - Wikipedia

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    The southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops), also known as the itjaritjari (pronounced [ˈɪɟɐrɪɟɐrɪ]) or itjari-itjari, [3] [4] is a mole-like marsupial found in the western central deserts of Australia.

  7. Discover Fascinating Facts About Elephants: The World’s ...

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    Scientists took a closer look at the ear flapping process and found that the cool air is absorbed through the thin skin on their ears. This sends cooler blood moving into the rest of their body.

  8. Tool use by non-humans - Wikipedia

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    Under each foreleg, the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) has a loose pouch of skin that extends across the chest. In this pouch (preferentially the left side), the animal stores collected food to bring to the surface. Otters are also known to keep rocks in this "pocket" that they use to crack open clams and shellfish. [101]

  9. 40 Facts About Animals That Might Make You Look Like The ...

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    Image credits: an1malpulse #5. Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.