The Hoof is on Fire
This is the name for the pully-like bone in the ankle of ungulate mammals.
What is astragalus?
This is the species of whale that makes the longest migrations of any mammals, at 18,000 km long.
What is the gray whale?
This is the name for the fecal material of bats, which piles up in caves and can be used to make fertilizer or gunpowder.
What is guano?
This is the word for the organism responsible for moving microparasites from a non-human mammal to humans.
What is a vector?
This is the first mammal that was domesticated by humans.
What is the dog or wolf?
What is unguligrade locomotion or an ungulate?
This is the name of the structure in the forehead of toothed whales, which is used to focus echolocation sounds being sent away from the animal's head.
This is the name for the thin but tear-resistant membrane that runs from the neck to the wings to the hind legs in bats.
What is patagium?
A fungus called Pseudogymnoascus destructans is the infectious agent responsible for this disease, which is currently decimating many bat species in North America.
What is white-nose syndrome?
This is the wild species on which the domesticated llama is based.
What is the vicuna?
This is the name for the type of head ornamentation found on members of the family Bovidae.
What are horns?
What word do you need to paint on the side of your whaling ship to get around the moratorium on commercial whaling in place since 1985.
What is "research"?
This is the name for the range in which most bats make their calls, well above the range of human hearing.
What is ultrasonic?
This is the word for reciprocal evolutionary change, like what happens when a parasite and its host continually adapt to each other.
What is coevolution?
At least a billion individuals each of these 3 mammal species are currently living under domestication around the globe.
What are cattle, sheep, and pigs?
This is the name of the mammalian order with only 3 families called Equidae, Tapiridae, and Rhinocerotidae.
What is Perissodactyla?
This is the term describing the hydrodynamic and sleek shape to cetacean bodies so they can slip through water efficiently.
What is fusiform?
This is the name of the family of bats in Yinpterochiroptera that uses almost no echolocation, has ears without a tragus, and has no nose or facial ornamentation.
What is Pteropodidae?
This disease is caused by a virus that infects nerve tissue, and it has an extremely high mortality rate at about 99.9%.
What is rabies?
This is the now-extinct species thought to be the ancestor for domesticated cattle.
What is the aurochs?
This is the name for a hoofed animal that has a stomach with 3-4 chambers, chews its cud, and has selenodont molars.
What is a ruminant?
This is the name of the structural protein that makes up baleen in the mysticete whales.
What is keratin?
This is the term for the action done by a bat to protect its inner ear from loud outgoing echolocation sounds.
What is self-deafening?
This disease, caused by a spirochete bacterium, was first recognized in 1977 in Connecticut.
What is Lyme Disease?
This domesticated species originated in the Fertile Crescent about 9-10 thousand years ago and still looks like its mouse-hunting ancestors.
What is the cat?