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Word
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Definition
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| aardwolf
| South African carnivorous fox-like quadruped
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| aasvogel
| South African vulture
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| aberdevine
| alternate name for the siskin
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| accentor
| songbird
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| acipenser
| sturgeon
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| addax
| spiral-horned antelope dwelling in the Sahara desert
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| adjutant
| enormous Indian stork
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| adzebill
| prehistoric flightless bird of New Zealand
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| aepyornis
| gigantic flightless bird of Madagascar
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| agouti
| tropical rabbit-sized rodent
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| amberjack
| spiny-finned Atlantic sport fish
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| amphiuma
| aquatic American salamander with two pairs of small feet
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| anhinga
| long-necked fish-eating tropical American bird
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| anoa
| small wild ox of Indonesia
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| anole
| arboreal American lizard with ability to change colour
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| antechinus
| carnivorous mouselike Australian marsupial
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| argali
| large-horned Asian wild sheep
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| aurochs
| extinct wild ox
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| avocet
| long-legged wading bird with upward-curving bill
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| axolotl
| salamander dwelling in mountainous lakes
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| aye-aye
| nocturnal lemur-like animal of Madagascar
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| babirusa
| large wild pig of Indonesia
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| bandicoot
| small long-nosed ratlike marsupial
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| bangtail
| mustang or wild horse
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| banteng
| wild ox of Southeast Asia
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| barasingha
| deer dwelling in swamps of India
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| barbet
| stout-billed tropical bird
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| beira
| pygmy antelope
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| bharal
| bluish-gray Himalayan goat
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| binturong
| civet of southeastern Asia with long prehensile tail
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| biscacha
| burrowing South American rodent
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| bittern
| small heron
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| blauwbok
| extinct bluish-coloured antelope of southern Africa
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| blenny
| small elongated marine fish
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| blesbok
| South African antelope with white patch on forehead
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| bongo
| reddish African antelope with white vertical stripes
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| bontbok
| South African antelope with unusual coloration
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| borzoi
| wolf-hound
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| brach
| female hunting hound
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| brachet
| whelp; brat; bitch hound
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| brandling
| striped earthworm used as fishing bait
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| brocken
| two-year-old stag
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| bulbul
| gregarious songbird
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| bullock
| an ox or castrated bull
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| cabrilla
| Atlantic sea bass
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| caiman
| small alligator-like reptile
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| caple
| a horse
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| capybara
| tailless aquatic rodent of South America
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| caracal
| long-legged nocturnal cat of African and Asian savannahs with long ears
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| caracara
| long-legged South American falcon
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| cassowary
| large flightless Melanesian bird
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| chamois
| goatlike antelope of mountainous regions of Europe
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| chevrotain
| small cloven-footed deerlike animal of southeast Asia
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| chiru
| straight-horned Tibetan antelope
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| chital
| Indian spotted deer
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| chuckwalla
| herbivorous desert-dwelling lizard
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| civet
| long-tailed catlike carnivorous mammal with musk glands
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| cleg
| horse-fly
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| coelacanth
| lobe-finned fish long thought to be extinct
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| colobus
| long-tailed African monkey
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| colocolo
| wild South American cat
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| colugo
| flying lemur
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| conure
| tropical parrot-like bird of Central and South America
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| corella
| cockateel
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| coypu
| large aquatic South American rodent
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| culex
| mosquito
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| culver
| dove or pigeon
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| curlew
| long-legged migratory bird with downward-curving bill
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| cusk
| large Atlantic fish like the cod
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| dabchick
| small grebe
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| daw
| simpleton; bird of the crow family
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| degu
| rat-like rodent of South America
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| desman
| aquatic insectivorous musk-secreting Russian rat
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| dhole
| wild Asian dog
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| dibatag
| Somali antelope with recurved horns
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| dik-dik
| small east African antelope
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| diprotodon
| gigantic prehistoric marsupial with two incisors in lower jaw
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| dobbin
| workhorse
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| dobsonfly
| soft-bodied insect with large mandibles
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| douc
| southern Chinese monkey
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| douroucouli
| small South American nocturnal monkey
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| dowitcher
| long-billed North American wading bird
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| duarf
| fictitious nineteen-toed fish of Erewhon
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| dugong
| aquatic herbivorous mammal like the manatee
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| duiker
| small African antelope
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| dunnart
| mouse-like marsupial with pointed snout
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| earwig
| a small insect; to bias; to pester with demands; to eavesdrop
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| echidna
| Australian toothless spined monotreme resembling a hedgehog
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| eland
| large heavily built African antelope
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| emmet
| ant
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| eyas
| unfledged falcon or other bird of prey
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| falanouc
| carnivorous mongoose-like mammal of Madagascar
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| falconet
| small variety of falcon
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| fossa
| carnivorous mongoose-like mammal of Madagascar
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| francolin
| type of Asian and African partridge
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| froghopper
| leaping and spitting insect
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| galago
| woolly long-tailed nocturnal lemur (bush baby)
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| galah
| blue-gray Australian cockatoo
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| gannet
| large white Atlantic seabird
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| gaur
| wild ox
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| gayal
| domesticated ox with tufted tail, native to south Asia
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| gelada
| long-haired Ethiopian baboon
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| gemsbok
| large South African antelope
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| genet
| spotted long-tailed carnivorous mammal like the civet
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| gerenuk
| long-necked antelope with large eyes
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| gharial
| large Indian crocodile with long snout
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| goa
| Tibetan gazelle with backward-curving horns
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| goanna
| large Australian lizard
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| goral
| small horned antelope living in mountainous regions of south Asia
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| gowk
| a cuckoo; a fool
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| graphiure
| African rodent with pencil-thin tail
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| grayling
| silver-grey freshwater fish
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| grebe
| diving bird resembling the loon
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| grilse
| salmon first returning to the river from the sea
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| grison
| weasel-like tropical American gray and black carnivore
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| grivet
| white and olive tufted African monkey
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| grysbok
| small speckled south African antelope
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| guenon
| small, slender bearded African monkey
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| guereza
| black and white Ethiopian tufted monkey
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| guillemot
| narrow-billed Atlantic auk
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| gundi
| desert-dwelling small rodent of northern Africa with bristles on feet
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| gymnure
| hairy hedgehog
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| hammerkop
| brown African heron with hammer-shaped crest on head
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| harrier
| medium-sized scenting dog for hunting hares
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| havier
| castrated deer
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| hellbender
| large flat North American aquatic salamander
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| hoatzin
| South American tropical bird whose young have clawed wings
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| hocco
| South American bird resembling a turkey
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| hogget
| one-year-old sheep or colt
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| huemul
| yellow-brown South American deer
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| hutia
| large Caribbean rat-like rodent
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| hyrax
| small rodent-like ungulate
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| ibex
| wild mountain goat with recurved horns
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| ibis
| large stork-like bird; a pale apricot colour
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| ichneumon
| small mongoose-like carnivorous quadruped
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| iguana
| large tropical New World lizard
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| iiwi
| bright red Hawaiian bird
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| ipiti
| a small antelope
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| isatis
| Arctic fox
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| ithomiid
| tropical South American butterfly
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| iulus
| millipede
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| izard
| goatlike antelope found in the Pyrenees
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| jabiru
| large tropical stork with massive bill
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| jacana
| long-toed tropical freshwater wading bird
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| jade
| pitiful horse; a nag
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| jennet
| small Spanish horse
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| jerboa
| nocturnal desert-dwelling jumping rodent
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| jiboya
| boa constrictor
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| junco
| North American finch
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| jurel
| coastal fish of southern United States
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| kagu
| long-legged bird of New Caledonia
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| kaka
| olive-brown parrot native to New Zealand
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| kea
| green parrot of New Zealand
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| keffel
| a horse; a nag
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| kereru
| pigeon variety of New Zealand
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| kiang
| wild Tibetan horse
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| kine
| cows
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| kinkajou
| carnivorous South American raccoon-like mammal
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| kleenebok
| small South African antelope
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| klipspringer
| small African antelope
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| knobber
| a stag in its second year
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| kob
| African water antelope
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| kouprey
| wild ox of Cambodia
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| kudu
| African antelope with spiralling horns
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| kyloe
| small long-haired cattle
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| lammergeier
| giant vulture-like bird of prey
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| langur
| long-tailed Indian monkey
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| lechwe
| light brown water antelope of South Africa
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| leopon
| crossbreed between a leopard and a lion
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| leveret
| a hare in its first year; a mistress
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| limpkin
| Caribbean crane-like bird
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| linsang
| white civet-like Javanese mammal
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| lorikeet
| brightly coloured southeast Asian parrot
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| loris
| large-eyed south Asian arboreal primate
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| lutung
| small monkey of Malaysia
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| malbrouck
| arboreal monkey of West Africa
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| mangabey
| long-tailed tropical African monkey
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| markhor
| reddish-grey central Asian wild goat
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| meerkat
| small long-tailed African ground squirrel or mongoose
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| morel
| dark-coloured horse; blackish colour
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| muntjac
| small tusked East Asian deer
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| murre
| white-breasted North Atlantic seabird
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| nightjar
| nocturnal insectivorous Old World migratory bird
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| numbat
| termite-eating anteater-like marsupial with white stripes
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| nutria
| amphibious South American rodent
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| nyala
| large south African antelope
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| octodont
| degu
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| okapi
| short-necked giraffe
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| olm
| blind aquatic cave-dwelling European salamander
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| onager
| Asiatic wild ass
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| onocrotal
| old term for the pelican
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| oribi
| small African antelope with vertical horns
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| oropendola
| tropical oriole living in long hanging nests
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| oryx
| large antelope of Africa and Arabia with long horns
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| ouzel
| blackbird; a dark-haired person
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| oystercatcher
| wading shorebird with reddish bill
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| palfrey
| riding horse, especially one for a lady
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| pangolin
| scaly insectivorous mammal with elongated snout
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| peccary
| tropical New World piglike mammal
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| percheron
| dappled cart horse
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| petrel
| long-winged seabird with hooked bill
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| phalarope
| migratory shorebird with lobed feet
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| phoenicopter
| flamingo
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| pichi
| small dark Argentinian armadillo
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| pichiciego
| small South American armadillo
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| pika
| rabbit-like mountain-dwelling mammal with rounded ears
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| porbeagle
| shark with a pointed snout
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| potto
| small nocturnal West African monkey
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| pratincole
| fork-tailed, long-winged Australian bird
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| prion
| small Antarctic petrel
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| pudu
| small Chilean deer
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| puku
| red Central African antelope
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| quarrion
| Australian parrot like the cockatiel
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| quaviver
| fish otherwise known as the sea-dragon or dragonet
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| quawk
| black-crowned night heron
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| quelea
| an African weaver-bird
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| querquedule
| pin-tail duck; a teal
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| quetzal
| gold and green bird with long tail feathers
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| queyock
| heifer
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| quickhatch
| wolverine
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| quinnat
| the king salmon
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| quokka
| short-tailed wallaby
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| quoll
| native cat-like marsupial of Australia
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| raad
| electric catfish
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| rach
| dog that hunts by scent
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| ratel
| honey-eating Old World badger
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| reebok
| small South African antelope
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| reedbuck
| antelope frequenting reeds
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| rooibok
| impala
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| rooirhebok
| reddish South African antelope
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| rorqual
| large whale with dorsal fin
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| rosella
| bright-coloured Australian parakeet
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| saiga
| migratory Russian antelope
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| saki
| South American monkey
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| sambar
| large reddish deer of southern Asia
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| scanderoon
| homing pigeon
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| seriema
| large crested Brazilian bird
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| serow
| Himalayan and South Asian goatlike antelope
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| serval
| tawny carnivorous South African catlike quadruped
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| shearling
| one-year-old sheep
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| siamang
| southeast Asian gibbon-like black ape
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| siskin
| small finch-like songbird
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| sitatunga
| medium-sized east African antelope with elongated hooves
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| skink
| small north African lizard
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| skua
| large north Atlantic gull
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| solenodon
| large Caribbean ratlike insectivore with long snout
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| sounder
| herd of pigs; young boar
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| spatangoid
| kind of sea-urchin
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| springbok
| South African antelope known for leaping
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| springhare
| South African jumping hare
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| steenbok
| small South African antelope
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| stellion
| lizard with starry spots
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| stirk
| yearling ox or cow; pasture for yearlings
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| sumpter
| pack horse; beast of burden
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| sunbittern
| brightly coloured South American bird
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| suni
| dwarfed southern African antelope
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| tabanid
| blood-sucking insect; gad-fly
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| tahr
| wild Asian goat with shaggy reddish coat
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| takin
| heavily built Himalayan goatlike ruminant
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| tamandua
| arboreal New World anteater with hairless tail
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| tamaraw
| water buffalo
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| tarpan
| small wild horse of southern Russia
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| tayra
| small South American weasel-like carnivore
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| teg
| a sheep in its second year; the fleece of such a sheep
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| tenrec
| spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar
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| thamin
| small deer with curved horns, native to southeast Asia
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| thylacine
| extinct doglike marsupial of Tasmania
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| tinamou
| ground-dwelling South American bird
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| titi
| small South American arboreal monkey
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| topi
| reddish-brown antelope of sub-Saharan Africa
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| trogon
| tropical bird with brilliant plumage
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| tsessebe
| central African antelope with lyre-shaped horns
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| tuatara
| spiny reptile of New Zealand with vestigial third eye
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| tucutucu
| rat-like burrowing South American rodent
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| turaco
| crested African colourful bird with long tail and red wings
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| tuza
| Mexican pouched rodent
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| uakari
| short-tailed, long-haired monkey
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| uguisu
| olive-plumed bush warbler
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| uintathere
| extinct Pleistocene hoofed herbivore
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| uraster
| starfish
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| urial
| wild central Asian sheep with reddish coat and long curved horns
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| urochs
| extinct wild ox or bison
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| uromastix
| spiky-tailed ground-dwelling lizard
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| urraca
| noisy South American bird
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| urubu
| black tropical New World vulture
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| vaquita
| small porpoise living in the Gulf of California
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| vedalia
| Australian pest-eating ladybug
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| vicuna
| soft-fleeced Andean ruminant
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| vireo
| olive-gray insectivorous American bird
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| viscacha
| South American burrowing rodent
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| wapiti
| elk
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| wether
| castrated ram
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| whiffet
| paltry person; little dog
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| whitecoat
| white-furred seal pup
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| widgeon
| freshwater duck
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| wisent
| extinct European bison
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| woolbird
| sheep
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| xanthareel
| yellow eel formerly used in medicinal foods
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| xeme
| fork-tailed gull
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| xenops
| a small tropical rainforest bird
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| xenurine
| species of armadillo
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| xiphias
| swordfish
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| xiphosuran
| horseshoe crab
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| yabby
| small edible freshwater crayfish
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| yaffingale
| green woodpecker
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| yakow
| animal crossbred from male yak and domestic cow
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| yapok
| an amphibious opossum of South America
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| yeanling
| lamb; kid
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| yelt
| a young sow
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| yelting
| glass-eyed snapper
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| yowie
| a little ewe
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| zander
| a variety of European perch
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| zebrinny
| offspring of male horse and female zebra
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| zebrule
| hybrid offspring of male zebra and female horse
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| zebu
| ox with hump and dewlap
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| zemni
| blind mole-rat
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| zeren
| light brown Mongolian gazelle
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| zho
| cross between a yak and a cow
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| zokor
| central Asian mole-like burrowing rodent
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| zonure
| small South African lizard
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| zyzzyva
| South American weevil
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