Mammals, WIL-ZOR
Mammals are distinguished by their ability to produce milk. The class Mammalia boasts tremendous diversity in form and habit, and different types of mammals can be wildly different from one another in physical appearance. Living kinds of mammals range in size from a bat weighing less than a gram to the largest animal that has ever lived, the blue whale, which reaches a length or more than 30 metres (100 feet) and a weight of 180 metric tons (nearly 200 short [U.S.] tons).
Mammals Encyclopedia Articles By Title
wildcat, (species Felis silvestris), a small wild member of the cat family (Felidae) native to Eurasia and Africa.......
wolf, any of two species of wild doglike carnivores. The gray, or timber, wolf (Canis lupus) is the better known.......
wolverine, (Gulo gulo), member of the weasel family (Mustelidae) that lives in cold northern latitudes of North......
wombat, (family Vombatidae), any of three large terrestrial species of Australian marsupials. Like woodchucks,......
wood mouse, (genus Apodemus), any of about 20 species of small-bodied rodents found from northern Europe eastward......
woodland vole, (Microtus pinetorum), a small mouselike rodent of the eastern United States that is well adapted......
woodrat, (genus Neotoma), any of 23 species of medium-sized North American and Central American rodents. Some species......
woolly mammoth, (Mammuthus primigenius), extinct species of elephant found in fossil deposits of the Pleistocene......
woolly monkey, any of five species of densely furred South American primates found in rainforests of the western......
woolly opossum, (subfamily Caluromyinae), any of five species of arboreal New World marsupials (family Didelphidae).......
woolly rhinoceros, (genus Coelodonta), either of two extinct species of rhinoceros found in fossil deposits of......
woolly spider monkey, (genus Brachyteles), extremely rare primate that lives only in the remaining Atlantic forests......
working dog, any of various breeds of dog bred as guard, herding, draft, or rescue animals. Breeds range from medium......
xenarthran, (magnorder Xenarthra), an ancient lineage of mammals comprising the armadillos (order Cingulata) and......
yak, (Bos grunniens), long-haired, short-legged oxlike mammal that was probably domesticated in Tibet but has been......
Yorkshire, breed of swine produced in the 18th century by crossing the large indigenous white pig of North England......
Yorkshire Terrier dog, breed of toy dog developed about the mid-1800s in the English counties of Yorkshire and......
zebra, any of three species of strikingly black-and-white striped mammals of the horse family Equidae (genus Equus):......
zokor, (genus Myospalax), any of seven north Asian species of subterranean rodents. Zokors are molelike animals......
zorille, (Ictonyx [sometimes Zorilla] striatus), African carnivore of the weasel family (Mustelidae), frequenting......