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cope with mammals, and to cope with mammals you must be a mammal yourself, or at least have metabolism as high as a mammal's. And big mammals have suppressed...

are are flying mammals in the order Chiroptera. The forelimbs of bats are webbed and developed as wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable...

liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for infant mammals before they are able to digest other types...

first mammals had an even deeper legacy, tracing back to about 325 million years ago, to a humid realm of coal swamps, when the ancestral mammal lineage...

necessary to set the stage for mammals culminating into humans. What dinosaurs do show is a parallel world, one in which mammals were permanently subsidiary...

Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more...

animal which is eaten. Often the use of the term is limited to the flesh of mammals. Organized alphabetically by author. O for a plump fat leg of Mutton, Veale...

necessary to set the stage for mammals culminating into humans. What dinosaurs do show is a parallel world, one in which mammals were permanently subsidiary...

Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. Whales range in size from the blue whale, the largest animal known to have ever...

all the different species. Here, animals and plants, insects and birds, mammals and man live together in intimate and complex communities, each dependent...

he is the ancestor of the whales, the most magnificent dynasty of mammals, and mammals are about to take over the world! Narrator: When the dinosaurs disappeared...

Livestock and the human beings who farm them now account for 96% of all the mammals on Earth. The Sumatran tiger, the Bornean orangutan and the hellbender...

innate in mammals? Well, supposedly not in mole rats. The mole rat was thought to be the only mammal that lives in harmony with its fellow-mammals, its fellow...

Fox is a common name for many species of carnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family, and particularly the twelve "true foxes", of which the red...

Director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. All mammals nurse their young, and breast milk benefits a newborn infant in ways above...

mammal-like reptiles] One day in the future, this strategy of investing in their young will pay off for their mammalian descendants. But as mammals evolve...

planet. […] 96% of mammal mass on the planet is now in the form of humans and our livestock, leaving a paltry 4% of wild mammals—land and sea. Roughly...

collagen positioned in a lattice structure; relatively small brains for mammals this size (400–600 g); and a large horn. If ever you meet a rhinoceros...

good one. [at night, after everybody else is asleep] Goodnight, Rudy. Mammals, we have ourselves a crime scene! A tuft of fur... half eaten carcass....

smells. In humans, the nose is located centrally on the face; on most other mammals, it is on the upper tip of the snout. As clear and as manifest as the nose...