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Eastern small-footed bat Townsend's big-eared bat Western mastiff bat Pocketed free-tailed bat Mexican free-tailed bats Ghost-faced bat California leaf-nosed bat. The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals.
1e Other mammals: Gayal (Bos frontalis) [3] Gayal (Bos frontalis) with significant introgression from other Bos species [32] 5000 BCE [33] Southeast Asia, Northeast India: meat, milk, horns, dung Slight physical changes Somewhat common in captivity, threatened in the wild 1b Bovidae: Domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus)
French language edition. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia is a large comprehensive encyclopedia of animal life. It is named after its original editor in chief, Bernhard Grzimek (pronounced [ˈɡʒɪmɛk]).
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.
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.
The order Primates consists of 505 extant species belonging to 81 genera. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Modern molecular studies indicate that the 81 genera can be grouped into 16 families; these families are divided between two named suborders and are grouped in those suborders into named clades, and some of these families are subdivided into named ...
Handbook of the Mammals of the World (HMW) is a book series from the publisher Lynx Edicions. The nine volumes were published from 2009 to 2019. The nine volumes were published from 2009 to 2019. Each mammal family is assessed in a full text introduction with photographs and each species has a text account with a distribution map and ...
Felidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, colloquially referred to as cats. A member of this family is called a felid. A member of this family is called a felid. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to domestic cats .