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  2. Familiar chat - Wikipedia

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    The familiar chat is a dumpy short-tailed bird 14–15 cm (5.5–5.9 in) long. The adult's upperparts are a dull brown with warmer brown ear coverts behind the eye. The underparts vary from off-white to pale grey-brown, and the rump and outer tail feathers are rufous with a dark brown tip.

  3. List of animal names - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. 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 ]

  4. Pedigree chart - Wikipedia

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    A pedigree chart is a diagram that shows the occurrence of certain traits through different generations of a family, [1] [2] most commonly for humans, show dogs, and race horses. [ citation needed ] Definition

  5. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    For animals, there are standard suffixes for taxa only up to the rank of superfamily. [30] Uniform suffix has been suggested (but not recommended) in AAAS [31] as -ida / ɪ d ə / for orders, for example; protozoologists seem to adopt this system. Many metazoan (higher animals) orders also have such suffix, e.g. Hyolithida and Nectaspida ...

  6. List of cattle terminology - Wikipedia

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    This is the origin of the now archaic English plural, kine. The Scots language singular is coo or cou, and the plural is kye. In older English sources such as the King James Version of the Bible, cattle refers to livestock, as opposed to deer which refers to wildlife. Wild cattle may refer to feral cattle or to undomesticated species of the ...

  7. What an Owl Taught Me About Life - AOL

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    When ecologist Carl Safina adopted a baby owl, he came to understand the world in a new way

  8. New ways to count your blessings: Science-backed ... - AOL

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    The charmer who once sent shivers down your spine morphs into the familiar face over the breakfast table. The fancy French-door fridge you ogled on the showroom floor now blends in with your other ...

  9. Familiar - Wikipedia

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    A late-16th-century English illustration of a witch feeding her familiars. In European folklore of the medieval and early modern periods, familiars (strictly familiar spirits, as "familiar" also meant just "close friend" or companion, and may be seen in the scientific name for dog, Canis familiaris) were believed to be supernatural entities, interdimensional beings, or spiritual guardians that ...