The hot, dry weather is causing some of the animals […]

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Chinanews, Beijing, May 22 – An earthquake forecast station was […]

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Scientists believe that deer once inhabited bitter-cold regions around the […]

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This early history of deer, summarized from Benson and Dodds […]

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 Nancy A. Fisher, BS, LAT

 Clinical Coordinator

 Animal Technology Program

 Michigan State […]

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SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

COMMON NAME:
Hoffman’s two-toed sloth

KINGDOM:
Animalia

PHYLUM:
Chordata

CLASS:
Mammalia

ORDER:
Xenarthra

FAMILY:
Megalonychidae

GENUS SPECIES:
Choloepus (lame or maimed foot) […]

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SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

COMMON NAME:
hippopotamus, hippo

KINGDOM:
Animalia

PHYLUM:
Chordata

CLASS:
Mammalia

ORDER:
Artiodactyla

FAMILY:
Hippopotamidae

GENUS SPECIES:
Hippopotamus (horse, a river) amphibius […]

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SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

COMMON NAME:
harbor seal

KINGDOM:
Animalia

PHYLUM:
Chordata

CLASS:
Mammalia

ORDER:
Pinnipedia

FAMILY:
Phocidae

GENUS SPECIES:
Phoca vitulina

FAST FACTS

DESCRIPTION:
Harbor seals have […]

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SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

COMMON NAME:
Guinea baboon, yellow baboon

KINGDOM:
Animalia

PHYLUM:
Chordata

CLASS:
Mammalia

ORDER:
Primates

FAMILY:
Cercopithecidae

GENUS SPECIES:
Papio papio

FAST FACTS

DESCRIPTION:
Smallest of […]

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SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

COMMON NAME:
Grevy’s zebra

KINGDOM:
Animalia

PHYLUM:
Chordata

CLASS:
Mammalia

ORDER:
Perissodactyla

FAMILY:
Equidae

GENUS SPECIES:
Equus (horse) grevyi

FAST FACTS

DESCRIPTION:
Dark brown stripes […]

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