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Discover LudwigThe word 'mammal' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any animal that is a member of the class Mammalia (i.e. humans, cats, and whales), or when discussing mammalian characteristics (i.e. the presence of hair and mammary glands). Example: Many mammals, such as cats and humans, give birth to live young.
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mammal
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An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.
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The use of the term "scientific" to justify the lethal killing of whales by Japan is not supported by any marine mammal scientists that I know in the present age.
The bodily composition of the horse, like most of the early equine depictions in the rock art, is heavily resonant of the shape of a kangaroo – evidence, perhaps, that the most common large mammal in Bininj experience initially sublimated their impressions of the foreign.
Why not fossil mammal fandom or a craze for critters from the Cambrian period?
Since Scotland became the first part of the UK to ban traditional foxhunting and hare coursing in 2002, it has been illegal to hunt a wild mammal with a dog.
olinguito, noun: a small furry mammal found in mountain forests in Colombia and Ecuador, the smallest member of the raccoon family.
Polar bears are the largest bear species, largely due to the fact that they consume the highest fat diet of any mammal (consisting primarily of seals and other marine mammals).
It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years.
We now know that the REM-iest mammal of them all is, bizarrely enough, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, known to you and me as the duck-billed platypus.
There are many other methods scientists can use to monitor marine mammal populations.
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Although yeast is a simple organism, its molecular biology is a lot more mammal-like than a bacterium's.
America has plenty of laws on its books the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, as well as the sanctuaries law but to little effect.
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