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- Alpaca (9975 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
23: ...vel, throughout the year. They are not used as beasts of burden like [[llama|llamas]], but are valued ...
38: ...ting triggers ovulation in the female. Gestation lasts about 11 months, and females usually give birth ...
74: ...ducts and keep their eating area away from their waste area to avoid diseases. - Lion (11511 bytes)
14: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
22: The last remnant of the [[Asiatic Lion]] (subspecies ''Pan...
25: ...ea'') which coexisted with humans throughout the last [[Ice Age]].
38: ... lacks the stamina for a sustained chase, in contrast to wild dogs. Natural enemies include such compet...
48: * ''Panthera leo azandica'' - North East Congo lion. - Canary (4349 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
20: ...t 13cm length, it is larger, longer and less contrasted than its relative the [[European Serin|Serin]],... - Chicken (21473 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
32: ...their own. Some farmers use fake eggs made from plastic or stone to encourage hens to lay in a particul...
40: ...n as ''going broody''. A broody chicken will sit fast on the nest, and protest if disturbed or removed,...
48: ...also cooked by [[deep frying]] and prepared as [[fast food]] such as [[chicken nugget]]s. Modern vari...
50: ...roasting birds. Typically, the muscle tissue (breast, legs, thigh, etc), livers, and gizzard are proce... - Bactrian Camel (3003 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]] }}
15: ...ven-toed ungulate]] native to the [[steppe]]s of eastern [[Asia]]. Nearly all of the estimated 1.4 mill...
23: ...s/facts/camels.htm]. The Dromedary is taller and faster, with a rider they can maintain 8-9 mph for hou... - Dromedary (4029 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
19: ...s/facts/camels.htm]. The Dromedary is taller and faster, with a rider they can maintain 8-9 mph for hou...
21: ...egion but became extinct by the beginning of the last millennium BC. Domesticated camels were introduc...
23: ...largely on horseback the new links to the Middle East allowed camels to be imported ''en masse''. These...
25: Gestation in the Dromedary lasts around 12 months. Usually a single calf is born,... - Fallow Deer (2886 bytes)
12: ...| author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = 1758}}
25: ...w deer was a native of most of Europe during the last Interglacial. In the [[Holocene]], the distributi... - Red deer (16671 bytes)
13: ... author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], | date = 1758}}
34: ...er, like other cervids, are subject to [[chronic wasting disease]], which may be similar to [[mad cow d...
39: ...alachia]]n area where the now extinct subspecies Eastern elk ''[[Cervus elaphus canadensis]]'' once liv...
41: ...ven states. The population is similarly small in eastern Canada.
48: ...Tule elk (''C. e. nannodes'') still survive. The Eastern elk (''C. e. canadensis'') and the Merriam's e... - Asian Elephant (3677 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
19: ...ticated, and has been used in forestry in [[Southeast Asia]] for centuries. Wild elephants attract tour...
40: ''E.m. borneensis'' is found in north Borneo (east Sabah and extreme north Kalimantan). It is smalle... - Arctic fox (3697 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}} - Red Fox (7749 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
38: ...ill also take rodents and birds from gardens and wasteland.
57: ...ontaneous. Copulation is loud and short, usually lasting no more than 20 seconds. Although a female may... - Leopard (7605 bytes)
2: ... | color = pink | name = Leopard}}<br />{{StatusLeastConcern}}
13: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
22: ...Pakistan, China, Siberia, much of mainland South-East Asia, and the islands of Java, Zanzibar, and Sri ...
42: ...ther than spots. The cheetah tends to run rather fast and goes much more quickly than the leopard. The ... - Llama (12988 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
19: ...try. They were kept not only for their value as beasts of burden, but also for their flesh, hides, and ...
26: The discoveries of a vast and previously unsuspected extinct fauna of the A...
34: ... of the [[premaxilla]], followed in the male at least by a moderate-sized, pointed, curved true [[canin...
62: ..., and donkeys, the importance of the llama as a beast of burden has greatly diminished. - Great White Shark (5784 bytes)
13: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
15: ...tionally large [[lamniform]] [[shark]] found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching le...
32: ...]]s than have been killed by white sharks in the last 100 years."[http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebra... - Sheep (9256 bytes)
13: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
19: There are at least seven species of sheep:
28: ...ale sheep as ''ewes'', intact males as ''rams'', castrated males as ''wethers'', yearlings as ''[[hogge...
37: Breeders of meat sheep concentrate on fast growth, multiple births, ease of lambing, and har...
44: ...they form the most common type of livestock in [[pastoralism]]. [[Selective breeding]] of sheep has fre... - Dog (69384 bytes)
17: ...]] [[mammal]] that has been domesticated for at least 14,000 years and perhaps for as long as 150,000 y...
27: ...amiliaris'' by [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] in [[1758]], but reclassified as a subspecies of the [[wolf...
39: ...ound. They can identify a sound's location much faster than can a human, and they can hear sounds up t...
43: ... of a wide variety of facial expressions; in contrast to cats, for instance, who have many fewer nerves...
122: ...y a few months, while giant breeds such as the [[Mastiff]]s take 16 to 18 months for the skeleton to ma... - Chiton (3478 bytes)
9: ...on (''Katharina tunicata'') on a stone with a [[seastar]]
11: ...aring). Chitons were first studied by Linnaeus in 1758. Since his description of the first four species,...
16: Predators include [[seagull]]s, [[seastar]]s, [[crab]]s, [[fish]]es and [[sea anemone]]s. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
14: ...fession at all. So Voltaire studied [[law]], at least nominally. The Abbé de Châteauneuf ...
16: ... [[Bastille]] on [[May 16]], [[1717]], here he recast ''Oedipe'', began the ''Henriade'' and decided to...
18: Ever after his exit from the Bastille in April [[1718]] he was known as ''Arouet de...
22: ...[[1720]]. It was a failure, and though it was recast with some success, Voltaire never published it as...
28: ...m he passed [[1724]] and the next year chiefly recasting the now successful ''Marianne'', but also writ... - American Bison (6740 bytes)
14: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
16: ...s far north to [[Mexico]] in the south, and from eastern [[Oregon]] almost to the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. I...
37: ... continuing significant population loss over the last 60 years. - Brown Bear (9756 bytes)
12: ...author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] | date = [[1758]]}}
22: ...ous areas. The brown bear ranges from [[Alaska]] east through the [[Yukon]] and [[Northwest Territories...
37: ...he bear into contact with humans can result in disaster -- for the bear.
58: ...he state of [[California ]] in [[1922]] when the last one was shot in [[Tulare County, California]]. It...
63: ...ia]] there are only three known cases during the last 100 years where humans have been killed by bears....
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