Mammal in a sentence

Either way, this newly observed dynamic could have consequences for the region’s marine mammal populations, which have bounced back since the passage of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972.

This could make it easier for the virus to mutate into a new one that could more easily jump from mammal to mammal, like say, from one human to another.

Up until now, the ability of the virus to jump from mammal to mammal has been limited, but the scale of infections and deaths in South America has raised troubling questions about whether something has changed.

Females of some mammal and some non-mammal species, such as alligators, citation have clitorises.

According to the National Audubon Society “Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians,” garter snakes living in northern regions hibernate in community dens, often under large rocks or inside mammal burrows.

A Colugo, a gliding mammal native to southeast Asia.

After completing a necropsy on the female whale the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said the wounds included a fractured skull, bruising on the head, and cuts on the whale's right side, which were likely caused by a propeller strike.

A rare egg-laying mammal named after Leicester's Sir David Attenborough – which had been lost for more than 60 years – has been captured on video for the first time.

Assistant can act as an assistant to your faulty mammal memory, if you know how to ask for that service.

By listening to the various marine mammal sounds, and detecting how regular and loud they are, we can build up an underwater image of what is present.

Dating to the Cretaceous Period, it shows the four-legged mammal Repenomamus robustus - the size of a domestic cat - ferociously entangled with the beaked two-legged dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis - as big as a medium-sized dog.

De Winton’s golden mole is a blind mammal about the size of a hamster, with powerful hearing and shimmering, tawny fur that helps it blend in with the South African sand dunes it calls home.

However, a more significant concern applies to invasive mammal species like the American mink and common raccoon dog, which have had a detrimental effect on local wildlife populations and also require control measures.

In 2021, it expanded the designation to include Rice’s whale, which is also protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

In Aotearoa New Zealand, native forest bird species are under threat from introduced mammal predators such as possums, rats and stoats.

In the 1980s, Akeakamai was the best-known of the “language” dolphins in Louis Herman’s animal language studies at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu.

It is thought to be the mighty mammal identified as Nancy in contemporary reports, which praised her “considerable intelligence” and ability to achieve “many astonishing feats”.

Marine Mammal Care Center’s sea lion resting zone at Charlie Beach in Marina Del Rey.

Moviegoers everywhere shall be able to see a mammal with a drug addiction wreak havoc and destruction on the state of Georgia when premieres exclusively in theaters on Friday, February 24th, 2023.

The 34-year-old, of Cottesmore Road, Ashwell, has also been charged with one count of 'hunting a wild mammal with dogs', an offence Section 1 of the Hunting Act.