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Zoological terms

Terms in relation to animals, such as mammals, birds, reptiles or fish.

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Cephalization

Zoology; Zoological terms

The development of a head, with its centralised sensory apparatus and a brain. 3 Invertebrates evolved away from a simple, saclike body with a single opening at one end toward a more complex, ...

Centrifugal Tail moult

Zoology; Zoological terms

The shedding and replacement of a bird's tail feathers that begins with the innermost pair of feathers being replaced first and then proceeding from the centre outward.

Central Nervous System

Zoology; Zoological terms

The part of an animal's nervous system that is made up of interneurons and exerts some control over the rest of the nervous system.

Character displacement

Zoology; Zoological terms

The divergence of adaptations or other characteristics in two similar species in locations where the animals share habitat.

Cere in birds .

Zoology; Zoological terms

(especially raptors), a raised and fleshy patch located at the base of the upper mandible (maxilla)

Chitin

Zoology; Zoological terms

A polysaccharide polymer that is found in invertebrate exoskeletons, the shells of some mollusks, and the cell walls of fungi.

Cetaceans

Zoology; Zoological terms

The order of marine mammals that includes toothed whales and toothless, filter-feeding (baleen) whales.

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