Animals Flashcards
(112 cards)
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general behaviour
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active dormant solitary, reclusive gregarious, social sedentary, settled nomadic, migrating
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size
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very large, massive, giant large medium, intermediate small very small, pygmy
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Development
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full-grown, mature
young, immature
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Body
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long-bodied short-bodied heavy-bodied, stocky, stubby, chunky low-slung sleek-bodied, slender
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Colouration
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plain, colourful, marked, unmarked, regular (markings), irregular, uniform, variable, alternating, dense, scattered, tinged, tinted, tipped, ringed (spots), buff, tawny, dusky, grizzled
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Areas of body
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above, below on the back or top side, dorsal on or along the side, lateral on the stomach or underside, ventral upperpart, underpart front/anterior hind/posterior
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close together (antonym)
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widely spaced, separated
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close together
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joined, webbed, proximal
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parts of body
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well-developed
poorly developed
undeveloped
no longer used as a body part, vestigial
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warm blooded
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endothermic, homoiothermic
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cold-blooded
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ectothermic, poikilothermic
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active during daylight
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diurnal
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active at night
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nocturnal
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active at dawn or twilight
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crepuscular
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passing the winter in a lethargic and low-metabolic state
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hibernating
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passing the summer in a lethargic and low metabolic state
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aestivating
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two-legged
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bicrural
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two footed
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biped
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four-footed
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quadruped, tetrapod
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many footed
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polyped
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having no feet
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apodal
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having hand like feet
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pedimanous, pedimane
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having arms
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brachiate
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two handed
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bimanous
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having nails or claws
unguiculate
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having feathered feet
plumiped, braccate
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web footed
palmiped
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capable of grasping
prehensile
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capable of being extended
protractile, protrusile
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capable of being drawn back
retractile
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scratching the ground for food
rasorial
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having ears
aurated
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having a tail
caudate
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having no tail
anurous
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having a tail with colour hands
ring-tailed
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having horns
corniculate
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having no horns
acerous
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having two teeth
bidentate
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having no teeth
edentate
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having two antennae or tentacles
dicerous
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not adapted to flying
flightless
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having wings
pennate, alate
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having no wings
apterous
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having feathers
plumaged, plumose
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having a peak
rostrate, rhamphoid
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having scales
squamate, squamous, squamose
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shedding or peeling off scales
desquamate
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having a bony or horny shell-like case
loricate
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having gills
branchiate
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having a thick hide
pachydermatous
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having a rough skin with sharp points
muricate
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having no hair
naked, hairless
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having fur (pelage)
furred, furry
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having shiny fur
sleek-furred
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having soft hair
pilose
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having bristles or spines
spiny, hispid, setaceous
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covered with bristles or spines
echinate
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covered with small bristles of spines
echinate
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covered with small bristles of spines
echinulate
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divided into defined segments or sections
segmented
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of two colours
bicoloured
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of three colours
tricoloured
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having stripes
striped, banded
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having long markings or somewhat uneven stripes
streaked
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having longitudinal stripes
vittate
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having transverse or crosswise stripes
cross-banded, cross-barred
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having spots of colour (or black or white)
spotted, mottled, maculate, liturate
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having small spots of colour (or black and white)
flecked, fleckled, speckled, specked, stippled, irrorate
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having large and irregular spots
blotched
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having black-and-white blotches
piebald
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having patches of white and a colour not black
skewbald
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having a mask-like facial marking or colouration
masked
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having a visibly collar-like part or marking
collared, ruffed
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having a tuft or ridge like formation on the head or back
crested
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having a fin along the back
fin backd
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having a highly developed sense of smell
macromatic
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having a weakly developed sense of smell
microsmatic
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having virtually no sense of smell
anosmatic
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imitative in colour or form
apatetic
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warning off by colours or changed in the body
aposematic
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serving to conceal
cryptic
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imitating others by things by using something as a covering
allocryptic
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giving birth to young rather than producing eggs
viviparous
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laying eggs
oviparous
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laying eggs but retaining them until hatching time
ovoviviparous
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widely distributed around the globe
cosmopolitan
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dwelling in a particular region
endemic
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dwelling in a particular region
endemic
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dwelling in the same region or overlapping regions
sympatric
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dwelling in different regions
allopatric
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dwelling in the air
aerial
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dwelling on the ground
terrestrial, terricolous
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dwelling (insects) at or near the ground's surface
epigeal
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dwelling underground
subterranean, hypogeous
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dwelling in caverns
cavernicolous
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dwelling in burrows
cunicular
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dwelling (insects) under a stone
lapidicolous
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dwelling in a tube
tubicolous
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dwelling in mud
limicolous
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dwelling in dung
coprophilous, coprozioc, stercoricolous
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dwelling in the desert
deserticolous
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dwelling (or burrowing) in sand
arenicolous
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dwelling in meadows or fields
practicolous, arvicoline
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dwelling on land and in water
amphibian
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dwelling in mountains
montane
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dwelling in trees
arboreal
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dwelling in water
aquatic
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dwelling in fresh water
freshwater
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dwelling in the sea
oceanic, pelagic, marine, maricolous
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dwelling in active or moving waters
lotic
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dwelling in still or slow moving waters
lentic
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dwelling along the seacoast
litteral, orarian, limicoline
