Nouns denoting animals
- Pedionomus torquatus
- small Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains
- brush
- a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- family Ptilonorhynchidae
- bowerbirds
- midge
- minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water
- murine
- a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae
- Oncorhynchus keta
- a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
- American crayfish
- common large crayfishes of eastern North America
- genus Microdipodops
- kangaroo mice
- genus Dolichonyx
- bobolinks
- Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
- goatsucker of western North America
- family Solenidae
- razor clams
- fetlock joint
- the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
- 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
- order Stegocephalia
- in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia
- Chamaeleo oweni
- a kind of chameleon
- squirrel
- a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
- family Bittacidae
- a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera
- Ptychozoon homalocephalum
- a gecko that has membranous expansions along the sides of its body and limbs and tail that enable it to glide short distances
- tettigoniid
- grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
- rat
- any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
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