amphibian
/æmˈfɪbiən/
nounany cold-blooded animal with the ability to live both on land and in water, such as toads, frogs, etc.
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1. These amphibians spend the dry season in the canopy.
2. Now, all amphibians have toxins in their skin.
3. - Amphibian, that's right.
4. And amphibians are a variety of different animals: frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders.
5. The amphibian brain is less well-developed than that of reptiles, birds and mammals.
cold-blooded
/ˈkoʊɫdˈbɫədəd/
adjectivedescribing an animal that its body temperature changes depending on the temperature of its surroundings
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1. At this point, Joaquin Murrieta was technically a cold-blooded serial killer.
2. He's a villain, a beast, he's a cold-blooded Grimm.
3. That was cold-blooded murder! -
4. They have to make a cold-blooded decision.
5. These cold-blooded ectotherms are protected by a hard bony shell.
warm-blooded
/wˈɔːɹmblˈʌdᵻd/
adjectivedescribing an animal that is able to maintain a higher body temperature than its surroundings
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1. And rings of slow growth also appear in some modern warm-blooded animals, like deer.
2. Human beings are amazing warm-blooded creatures who deal in their personal truths.
3. The flea is naturally parasitic on warm-blooded animals.
4. Warm-blooded animals take a huge hit at this time.
5. It'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.
2. None of these varieties are indigenous.
3. About 2% of the country is indigenous pygmy.
4. Today's word is indigenous.
5. Indigenous tribes have inhabited the jungles of the Amazon for many centuries.
rodent
/ˈɹoʊdənt/
nounany small mammal with a pair of strong front teeth, such as mice, hamsters, rats, etc.
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1. You rodent!
2. Patagonian cavies are rodents.
3. What's a rodent?
4. The rodent runs into a small pipe.
5. Before the rodents can even commit their crimes.
predator
/ˈpɹɛdətɝ/
nounany animal that lives by hunting and eating other animals
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1. Narrator: ln the battle for survival, predators brandish such terrifying weapons as teeth, claws, and jaws.
2. In this land, predators rule.
3. Predators react to movement.
4. These vast herds attract predators.
5. Here, in the deep midwater, predators play a patient game.
to camouflage
/ˈkæməˌfɫɑʒ/
verbto make or become undetectable by resembling the color or shape of a surrounding
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1. Their baseline is camouflage.
2. Camouflaged through jujitsu.
3. Digitally printed Moon camouflage.
4. Its camouflage worked.
5. I camouflage all types of scars, birth marks, and burns.
baboon
/bəˈbun/
nouna large monkey with a doglike face and large teeth, native to Africa and South Asia
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1. Baboons cherish this place too.
2. Baboons love babies.
3. Baboons have the tools for the job.
4. Baboons often use termite hills as lookout posts.
5. For some, baboons represent not family but food.
buffalo
/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/
nouna 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.
2. Buffaloes are incredibly dangerous.
3. A buffalo produces just over 2 pounds of dung a day.
4. The pride's favorite food is buffalo.
5. Then buffalo.
coyote
/ˈkaɪoʊt/, /kaɪˈoʊti/
nouna North American wild animal that resembles a small wolf
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1. - Ah, coyote urine.
2. Coyotes have to learn traffic patterns.
3. Hey coyote pack.
4. - Coyote, the other teams got the lions over the hill.
5. Coyotes have a different love life bro.
hippo
/ˈhɪpoʊ/
nouna 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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1. and hippo campus.
2. The hippo lives in Africa.
3. A hippo can weigh up to 3 tons.
4. A hippo can eat up to 40 kilograms of grass per day.
5. - Not hippo scrubs and Crocs.
jaguar
/ˈdʒæˌɡwɑɹ/
nouna 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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1. Jaguars have the most powerful bite of any big cat.
2. Jaguars are an apex predator.
3. Jaguars are opportunists.
4. Jaguars cover a large home range in their search for food.
5. - Jaguars are fast.
rhinoceros
/ɹaɪˈnɑsɝəs/
nouna 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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1. The rhinoceros beetle.
2. Rhinoceros beetle!
3. Albrecht Durer never actually saw a rhinoceros.
4. The Javan rhinoceros is one of the rarest mammals on earth.
5. The Javan rhinoceros is one of the rarest mammals on earth.
trunk
/ˈtɹəŋk/
nounthe nose of an elephant that is in the shape of a long hose
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1. Hey, our trunk has a tennis ball in it and some, whatever, rope.
2. Brown people go trunk diving, too.
3. All right, just finishing up the trunk.
4. Now, a lot of people consider trunks.
5. - Where's your trunk?
tusk
/ˈtəsk/
nouneach 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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1. Do female elephants have tusks?
2. Animal tusks are in fact overgrown teeth.
3. I see the tusks.
4. Tusks intertwined.
5. Those tusks are actually amazing.
skunk
/ˈskəŋk/
nouna 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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1. But skunks grab your heart.
2. Skunks have an awesome reputation.
3. Skunks have amazing adaptation.
4. Skunks are completely solitary.
5. No. - You got skunk?
flock
/ˈfɫɑk/
nouna group of birds of the same type, flying and feeding together
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1. Europe’s wealthiest people flocked to Monaco.
2. Philosophers, scientists, astronomers, and mathematicians flocked to the Egyptian port city.
3. People flock to his city.
4. The public flocked to the Jardin d’Acclimatation.
5. Thousands 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.
dove
/ˈdəv/, /ˈdoʊv/
nouna bird that looks like a pigeon but smaller, the white one of which is the symbol of peace
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1. In the past, women dove in light cotton clothing.
2. Some people call pigeons by their other name - the dove.
3. The dove will give up the resource.
4. And then daddy bought doves.
5. - You dove.
falcon
/ˈfæɫkən/
nouna predatory fast-flying bird that can be trained for hunting
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1. Peregrine falcons are the fastest animals in the world.
2. Some falcons fly up to 200 miles per hour.
3. Falcon, take a couple of steps to your right.
4. Falcons are a big part of Emirati heritage and tradition.
5. Falcons have a different significance here.
peacock
/ˈpiˌkɑk/
nouna male bird with a large shiny colorful tail having eyelike patterns that can be raised for display
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1. Finally, here is the peacock spider.
2. But the tigers traditionally ate peacocks.
3. Next one is peacock.
4. Peacock feathers create color without pigment.
5. Color without pigments: this peacock is creating color with shape.
raven
/ˈɹeɪvən/
nouna large black bird belonging to the crow family with shiny feathers and a loud unpleasant call
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1. First, ravens are bigger.
2. Normally, ravens eat fruit and nuts, as well as insects and small animals like lizards.
3. Well, ravens can imitate sounds, too!
4. The ravens were dirty birds.
5. Raven from "Teen Titans."
swallow
/ˈswɑɫoʊ/, /ˈswɔɫoʊ/
nouna small fast-flying bird with pointed wings and tail and a short bill, which feeds on insects
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1. A small break in a pipe can eventually create a sinkhole that swallows whatever stood above it.
2. This cricket swallowed the larvae of a Gordian worm, or horsehair worm.
3. Swallow the saliva.
4. This turtle swallowed two hooks.
5. The man rarely swallows the last bit.
dragonfly
/dɹˈæɡənflˌaɪ/
nouna flying insect with a pair of colorful wings, mostly found around rivers
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1. Dragonflies, however, operate differently.
2. Dragonflies can chase down their meal at up to 55 kilometers an hour.
3. Dragonflies are insects, just like bees, ants, and ladybugs.
4. Part robot, part space drone, Dragonfly will make the 759,000-mile eight-year journey to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
5. The dragonflies are here now.
grasshopper
/ˈɡɹæsˌhɑpɝ/
nouna leaping, flying insect with long back legs that feeds on plants and makes a chirping sound
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1. Locusts are grasshoppers - with unusual superpowers.
2. Watch this grasshopper.
3. In Thailand, bars and street markets sell crickets, grasshoppers and a variety of worms.
4. The grasshoppers are grasshoppers.
5. The grasshoppers are grasshoppers.
python
/ˈpaɪθɑn/
nouna large tropical snake that is non-venomous and kills its prey by squeezing it
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1. I owe this python 50 bucks.
2. Burmese python takes a dump in the pool.
3. Finally, the python gets out.
4. A woman noticed a python in her toilet bowl.
5. A python is a giant snake.
orca
/ˈɔɹkə/
nouna 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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1. The orca pod drives the herring together.
2. The orcas are constantly on the move in an expanse of water the size of Belgium.
3. And unlike the human brain, the orca also has a paralimbic lobe.
4. Another orca group has joined Springer's family.
5. But in alaska, Another whale is rivaling the orca in intelligence.
