Animals

Gadus macrocephalus

closely related to Atlantic cod

 

Anisotremus virginicus

black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil

 

honey guide

small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae

 

tortoiseshell butterfly

brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles

 

deer

distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

 

ground-shaker

huge herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous found in western North America

 

white elephant

albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia

 

Crex crex

common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields

 

armadillo

burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates

 

piciform bird

any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood

 

anaspid

extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian

 

Aepyceros melampus

African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps

 

Ixodes neotomae

a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to dusky-footed wood rats

 

nonstarter

a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered

 

Chilomeniscus cinctus

a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes

 

Sorex araneus

common American shrew

 

tarsier

nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates

 

anthropoid

any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids

 

Roccus saxatilis

marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

 

Polyborus plancus

South American caracara