Cats and Dogs
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Unlike dogs, cats are considered obligate ______, meaning they require nutrients found in animal tissues.
What are carnivores?
These procedure(s) are using to prevent an animal from reproducing.
What is a spay/neuter?
This broad category of animal most famously contains bovines; it is often used as a blanket term for any grass-consuming herbivore.
What are ruminants?
This viral disease is (almost) always fatal once clinical signs appear and is associated with bites/scratches from infected mammals.
What is rabies?
This mammal, native to Australia, has a bill resembling a duck and famously venomous spurs on their hind legs.
What is the platypus?
Dogs and cats both have this extra toe-like structure high up on their front legs, commonly called the "thumb".
What is the dewclaw?
What are zoonotic diseases?
A newborn pig is called this.
What is a piglet?
This mosquito-borne illness is best known for infecting humans in sub-Saharan Africa, but can also affect chimpanzees and other primates.
What is malaria?
This flightless bird is the smallest member of the ratite group and lays the largest egg (proportional to its body) of any bird.
What is the kiwi?
This dog breed has a distinctive ridge of fur along its back growing in the opposite direction from the rest of its coat.
What is the Rhodesian Ridgeback?
This procedure is used to remove an animal's teeth.
What is a dental extraction?
The term for a female bovine that has not yet had a calf.
What is a heifer?
This disease is known for its similarity to a human disease sharing a very similar name. Untreated, this disease causes immune system destruction in felines and cannot be cured.
What is FIV?
This animal, famous for its alien-like appearance, has three hearts, blue blood, and is often found at the aquarium.
What is an octopus?
Unlike most mammals, cats cannot taste this flavor, which is why they don't respond to it like we do. What is the flavor?
This term is used to describe something that is swollen, usually in reference to the abdomen.
What is distended?
This domesticated species, commonly found on a farm, has a divided upper lip allowing it to selectively grasp food.
What is the horse?
This viral disease is best known for impacting puppies, causing vomiting and diarrhea. This disease can be prevented with a vaccine.
What is parvovirus?
This tiny Asian mammal is the only mammal known to have true keratin scales across its body.
What is the pangolin?
This is the number of chromosomes a dog has.
This procedure is used to remove urine from a bladder using a needle.
What is cystocentesis?
This black-and-white dairy cow is the most common dairy breed in the USA
What is the Holstein?
This prion disease infects goats and sheep.
What is scrapie?
This bird is famous for producing milk-like secretions to feed its young despite not being a mammal.
What is the pigeon?