Collocations withmammal
These are words often used in combination withmammal.
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aquatic mammal
This herbivorous aquatic mammal lives in rivers, springs and shallow coastal waters.
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carnivorous mammals
This species is one of the oldest carnivorous mammals that can be traced all the way to present day carnivorous mammals.
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female mammal
It seems likely that female hominins, like female mammals in general, had evolved for some functions more advanced brains than their male counterparts.
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land mammal
It has one and a half times the amount of blood that a land mammal of comparable size possesses.
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large mammal
All traps were therefore located 50 m from the edges of the large mammal treatment.
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living mammal
No living mammal displays this combination of characteristics.
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marine mammal
In addition, local expertise contributes to evaluating the impacts of such change on marine mammal habitat and behaviour, hunting success, hunting safety, and food security.
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placental mammal
The fact that an object has whatever properties of dogs that make them different from all other mammals does not entail that that object is a placental mammal.
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primitive mammal
This may have occurred as a consequence of the development of olfactory-hippocampal associative networks in primitive mammals, and the progressive incorporation of the dorsal cortex into this network.
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small mammal
Trapping of small mammals only occurred during one season, so seasonal variation of infection with bartonellae could not be assessed in the small mammal population.
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terrestrial mammal
Tapir tracks were second only to red brocket deer in terms of terrestrial mammal track densities.
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