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Odds and Ends
100
includes rats, beavers, and porcupines
What is rodents?
100
primates without tails
What are apes?
100
animals with backbones
What is vertebrates?
100
an example of a baleen whale
What is a blue whale or humpback whale?
100
Term which describes animals that are active at night
What is nocturnal?
200
includes apes, monkeys, and lemurs
What are primates?
200
animals which "chew the cud"
What are ruminants?
200
a state in which an animal enters a dormant state during the winter in which the body temperature falls to near freezing point
What is hibernation?
200
the most familiar primates with tails
What are monkeys?
200
the "little armored one"
What is the armadillo?
300
includes shrews, moles, and hedgehogs
What is insectivores?
300
hoofed mammals
What are ungulates?
300
an example of a toothed whale
What is a sperm whale, killer whale, dolphin, or porpoise?
300
term that describes any tree-dwelling animal
What is arboreal?
400
odd-toed ungulates such as rhinos, tapirs, and horses
What are perissodactyls?
400
ungulates such as cattle, sheep, and goats that have been valuable to man as a source of food and clothing
What are bovids?
400
Term which describes animals that are active during the day
What is diurnal?
400
elephants have these enlarged incisor teeth made of ivory
What are tusks?
400
the scaly anteater
What is the pangolin?
500
Includes rabbits, hares, and pikas?
What is lagomorphs?
500
even-toed ungulates such as cattle, sheep, and deer
What are artiodactyls?
500
also known as the spiny anteater
What is the echidna?
500
also known as a "sea cow"?
What is a manatee?
500
this mammal spends longer periods in uninterrupted hibernation than any other
What is the bat?