Mammals

Mammals

Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young.

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Aurochs

Animals; Mammals

Extinct wild ox or bison. Domestication of the aurochs began in the southern Caucasus and northern Mesopotamia from about the 6th millennium BC, while genetic evidence suggests that aurochs were ...

Viscacha

Animals; Mammals

South American burrowing rodent. Plains viscacha is a large rodent, weighing up to 9 kg. It has an average head and body length over 500 mm, with tail usually a little less than 200 mm long.

Vicuna

Animals; Mammals

Soft-fleeced Andean ruminant. The wool is popular due to its warmth. Its warming properties come from the tiny scales that are on the hollow air-filled fibres.

Zebu

Animals; Mammals

Ox with hump and dewlap. They are characterised by a fatty hump on their shoulders, drooping ears and a large dewlap.

Zebrule

Animals; Mammals

A cross between a male zebra and a female horse. Zebrule is the offspring of a male zebra (a stallion) and a female donkey (a jenny or jennet). The name could have been a combination of the names ...

The Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), or Zeren, is a medium-sized antelope native to the semi-arid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, as well as some parts of Siberia and China. The name zeren ...

Dzo

Animals; Mammals

A dzo is a hybrid of yak and domestic cattle. The word dzo technically refers to a male hybrid, while a female is known as a dzomo or zhom. Alternative Romanizations of the Tibetan names include zho ...