amphibian
/æmˈfɪbiən/
noun
any cold-blooded animal with the ability to live both on land and in water, such as toads, frogs, etc.
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1These amphibians spend the dry season in the canopy.
2Now, all amphibians have toxins in their skin.
3- Amphibian, that's right.
4And amphibians are a variety of different animals: frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders.
5The amphibian brain is less well-developed than that of reptiles, birds and mammals.
cold-blooded
/ˈkoʊɫdˈbɫədəd/
adjective
describing an animal that its body temperature changes depending on the temperature of its surroundings
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1At this point, Joaquin Murrieta was technically a cold-blooded serial killer.
2He's a villain, a beast, he's a cold-blooded Grimm.
3That was cold-blooded murder! -
4They have to make a cold-blooded decision.
5These cold-blooded ectotherms are protected by a hard bony shell.
warm-blooded
/wˈɔːɹmblˈʌdᵻd/
adjective
describing an animal that is able to maintain a higher body temperature than its surroundings
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1And rings of slow growth also appear in some modern warm-blooded animals, like deer.
2Human beings are amazing warm-blooded creatures who deal in their personal truths.
3The flea is naturally parasitic on warm-blooded animals.
4Warm-blooded animals take a huge hit at this time.
5It's a warm-blooded mammal bird.
indigenous
/ˌɪnˈdɪdʒənəs/
adjective
(of animals and plants) found and developed only in a particular place and not been brought from elsewhere
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1- I love indigenous people.
2None of these varieties are indigenous.
3About 2% of the country is indigenous pygmy.
4Today's word is indigenous.
5Indigenous tribes have inhabited the jungles of the Amazon for many centuries.
rodent
/ˈɹoʊdənt/
noun
any small mammal with a pair of strong front teeth, such as mice, hamsters, rats, etc.
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1You rodent!
2Patagonian cavies are rodents.
3What's a rodent?
4The rodent runs into a small pipe.
5Before the rodents can even commit their crimes.
predator
/ˈpɹɛdətɝ/
noun
any animal that lives by hunting and eating other animals
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1Narrator: ln the battle for survival, predators brandish such terrifying weapons as teeth, claws, and jaws.
2In this land, predators rule.
3Predators react to movement.
4These vast herds attract predators.
5Here, in the deep midwater, predators play a patient game.
den
/ˈdɛn/
noun
the hidden place where a wild predatory animal lives
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1- What's a den?
2- What is a den?
3Zalika's den is no nursery.
4Together, the dogs are leaving their den behind.
5A fetid hyena den is even better.
to camouflage
/ˈkæməˌfɫɑʒ/
verb
to make or become undetectable by resembling the color or shape of a surrounding
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1Their baseline is camouflage.
2Camouflaged through jujitsu.
3Digitally printed Moon camouflage.
4Its camouflage worked.
5I camouflage all types of scars, birth marks, and burns.
to growl
/ˈɡɹaʊɫ/
verb
(of animals, particularly dogs) to make a rumbling sound from the throat as a sign of warning
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1he growled.
2'To the devil with you, Mr Lockwood!' growled my landlord.
3he growled.
4The world is growling.
5he growled.
baboon
/bəˈbun/
noun
a large monkey with a doglike face and large teeth, native to Africa and South Asia
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1Baboons cherish this place too.
2Baboons love babies.
3Baboons have the tools for the job.
4Baboons often use termite hills as lookout posts.
5For some, baboons represent not family but food.
badger
/ˈbædʒɝ/
noun
a nocturnal animal belonging to the weasel family with short legs and gray fur
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1Badgers are found all over the world.
2Badgers, go away.
3Badgers are in her backyard.
4He's badgering the witness.
5Yeah, some badgers do.
buffalo
/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/
noun
a large wild plant-eating animal belonging to the cow family with curved horns, native to Africa and Asia
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1"Water cow" is buffalo.
2Buffaloes are incredibly dangerous.
3A buffalo produces just over 2 pounds of dung a day.
4The pride's favorite food is buffalo.
5Then buffalo.
coyote
/ˈkaɪoʊt/, /kaɪˈoʊti/
noun
a North American wild animal that resembles a small wolf
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1- Ah, coyote urine.
2Coyotes have to learn traffic patterns.
3Hey coyote pack.
4- Coyote, the other teams got the lions over the hill.
5Coyotes have a different love life bro.
cougar
/ˈkuɡɝ/
noun
a large wild cat with a tawny fur that lives in mountains, native to the Americas
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1Of course cougars love it.
2Are you into cougars?
3Are you a cougar?
4Go Cougars.
5Yeah, you like cougars.
hare
/ˈhɛɹ/
noun
a rabbit-like animal with long legs and ears, which can run very fast
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1The snowshoe hare specifically.
2The hare's already there.
3They're hunting hares.
4A hare is a wild rabbit.
5This time the hare definitely won.
hippo
/ˈhɪpoʊ/
noun
a very large plant-eating mammal with short legs, large tusks, and a thick skin, living in or around rivers, native to Africa
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1and hippo campus.
2The hippo lives in Africa.
3A hippo can weigh up to 3 tons.
4A hippo can eat up to 40 kilograms of grass per day.
5- Not hippo scrubs and Crocs.
jaguar
/ˈdʒæˌɡwɑɹ/
noun
a large wild animal belonging to the cat family with a yellow fur covered with black spots, native to Central and South America
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1Jaguars have the most powerful bite of any big cat.
2Jaguars are an apex predator.
3Jaguars are opportunists.
4Jaguars cover a large home range in their search for food.
5- Jaguars are fast.
panther
/ˈpænθɝ/
noun
a large wild cat with brown or gray fur, native to North and South America
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1- Go Panthers!
2Yeah go panthers!
3I still have that panther.
4The lion and the panthers, I love panthers too.
5Don't run up on the panther.
rhinoceros
/ɹaɪˈnɑsɝəs/
noun
a very large mammal with a thick gray skin and one or two horns on its nose, feeding on plants, which is native to Africa and Southern Asia
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1The rhinoceros beetle.
2Rhinoceros beetle!
3Albrecht Durer never actually saw a rhinoceros.
4The Javan rhinoceros is one of the rarest mammals on earth.
5The Javan rhinoceros is one of the rarest mammals on earth.
trunk
/ˈtɹəŋk/
noun
the nose of an elephant that is in the shape of a long hose
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1Hey, our trunk has a tennis ball in it and some, whatever, rope.
2Brown people go trunk diving, too.
3All right, just finishing up the trunk.
4Now, a lot of people consider trunks.
5- Where's your trunk?
tusk
/ˈtəsk/
noun
each of the curved pointy teeth of some animals such as elephants, boars, etc., especially one that stands out from the closed mouth
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1Do female elephants have tusks?
2Animal tusks are in fact overgrown teeth.
3I see the tusks.
4Tusks intertwined.
5Those tusks are actually amazing.
skunk
/ˈskəŋk/
noun
a small mammal belonging to the weasel family with black and white stripes that can produce a strong unpleasant smell when attacked, native to North America
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1But skunks grab your heart.
2Skunks have an awesome reputation.
3Skunks have amazing adaptation.
4Skunks are completely solitary.
5No. - You got skunk?
flock
/ˈfɫɑk/
noun
a group of birds of the same type, flying and feeding together
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1Europe’s wealthiest people flocked to Monaco.
2Philosophers, scientists, astronomers, and mathematicians flocked to the Egyptian port city.
3People flock to his city.
4The public flocked to the Jardin d’Acclimatation.
5Thousands of visitors flock to this recognizable location for its beauty or perhaps simply in hopes of one day catching themselves a glimpse of Daenerys Targaryen.
cuckoo
/ˈkəˌku/, /ˈkuˌku/
noun
a medium-sized bird with a grayish-brown plumage that lays its eggs in the nests of other birds
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1- They're cuckoos.
2- Cuckoo clock has a door.
3So here's a cuckoo.
4Cuckoo for copying paintings.
5Try a cuckoo pair.
dove
/ˈdəv/, /ˈdoʊv/
noun
a bird that looks like a pigeon but smaller, the white one of which is the symbol of peace
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1In the past, women dove in light cotton clothing.
2Some people call pigeons by their other name - the dove.
3The dove will give up the resource.
4And then daddy bought doves.
5- You dove.
falcon
/ˈfæɫkən/
noun
a predatory fast-flying bird that can be trained for hunting
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1Peregrine falcons are the fastest animals in the world.
2Some falcons fly up to 200 miles per hour.
3Falcon, take a couple of steps to your right.
4Falcons are a big part of Emirati heritage and tradition.
5Falcons have a different significance here.
peacock
/ˈpiˌkɑk/
noun
a male bird with a large shiny colorful tail having eyelike patterns that can be raised for display
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1Finally, here is the peacock spider.
2But the tigers traditionally ate peacocks.
3Next one is peacock.
4Peacock feathers create color without pigment.
5Color without pigments: this peacock is creating color with shape.
raven
/ˈɹeɪvən/
noun
a large black bird belonging to the crow family with shiny feathers and a loud unpleasant call
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1First, ravens are bigger.
2Normally, ravens eat fruit and nuts, as well as insects and small animals like lizards.
3Well, ravens can imitate sounds, too!
4The ravens were dirty birds.
5Raven from "Teen Titans."
swallow
/ˈswɑɫoʊ/, /ˈswɔɫoʊ/
noun
a small fast-flying bird with pointed wings and tail and a short bill, which feeds on insects
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1A small break in a pipe can eventually create a sinkhole that swallows whatever stood above it.
2This cricket swallowed the larvae of a Gordian worm, or horsehair worm.
3Swallow the saliva.
4This turtle swallowed two hooks.
5The man rarely swallows the last bit.
dragonfly
/dɹˈæɡənflˌaɪ/
noun
a flying insect with a pair of colorful wings, mostly found around rivers
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1Dragonflies, however, operate differently.
2Dragonflies can chase down their meal at up to 55 kilometers an hour.
3Dragonflies are insects, just like bees, ants, and ladybugs.
4Part robot, part space drone, Dragonfly will make the 759,000-mile eight-year journey to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
5The dragonflies are here now.
grasshopper
/ˈɡɹæsˌhɑpɝ/
noun
a leaping, flying insect with long back legs that feeds on plants and makes a chirping sound
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1Locusts are grasshoppers - with unusual superpowers.
2Watch this grasshopper.
3In Thailand, bars and street markets sell crickets, grasshoppers and a variety of worms.
4The grasshoppers are grasshoppers.
5The grasshoppers are grasshoppers.
wasp
/ˈwɑsp/
noun
a winged insect with a powerful sting and black and yellow colors
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1Wasps are like butterflies.
2Now, wasps are a bit different than bees.
3Wasps are incredibly speedy insets.
4Wasps are terrifying.
5I love wasps.
crab
/ˈkɹæb/
noun
a sea creature with eight legs, two pincers, and a hard shell, which is able to live on land
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1- I got crabs!
2Say crab.
3Says crab.
4- You guys got crabs?
5My dad has crabs.
python
/ˈpaɪθɑn/
noun
a large tropical snake that is non-venomous and kills its prey by squeezing it
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1I owe this python 50 bucks.
2Burmese python takes a dump in the pool.
3Finally, the python gets out.
4A woman noticed a python in her toilet bowl.
5A python is a giant snake.
orca
/ˈɔɹkə/
noun
a large, black-and-white marine mammal known for its social behavior, intelligence, and adaptability, found in oceans worldwide and known as an apex predator
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1The orca pod drives the herring together.
2The orcas are constantly on the move in an expanse of water the size of Belgium.
3And unlike the human brain, the orca also has a paralimbic lobe.
4Another orca group has joined Springer's family.
5But in alaska, Another whale is rivaling the orca in intelligence.

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