olinguito

/əʊlɪŋˈɡiːtəʊ/

From Spanish olinguito, diminutive of olingo.

“The discovery of the olinguito shows us that the world is not yet completely explored, its most basic secrets not yet revealed.”

2013 August 15, “Smithsonian scientists discover new carnivore: the olinguito”, in Smithsonian Science:

A fuzzy fog-dweller with a face like a teddy bear, the olinguito (pictured) is the first carnivore discovered in the Western Hemisphere in more than three decades, a new study says.

2013, Christine Dell'Amore, “New Carnivore Revealed: Photos of the Olinguito and its Kin”, in National Geographic:

In the year since the announcement, the olinguito has gone from literal unknown to being surprisingly well-documented through photos and videos shot by amateur naturalists, bird watchers, and others, a kind of crowd-sourced science.

2014 August 19, Jeffrey Brown, “'Crowd-sourced' Science Sheds New Light on New Mammal Olinguito”, in PBS Newshour:

First, a brand new species of mammal, considered the holy grail of the discipline, was found hiding in plain sight: the olinguito, smallest member of the raccoon family, has been around for decades, but was mistaken for its more substantial cousin, the olingo.

2014 September 1, Andrew Theitic, The Witches' Almanac, number 34, Spring 2015-Spring 2016:

The olinguito, one of science's recently discovered species, is part of the same family as raccoons, coatis, and kinkajous.

2015, Josh Hestermann, Bethanie Hestermann, Zoology for Kids: Understanding and Working with Animals, with 21 Activities, page 96:

The olinguito was found in the Andes Mountains by Smithsonian scientists in 2013.

2018, Tamra B. Orr, Animal Discoveries, page 12:

Bassaricyon neblina
Bassaricyon neblina#Translingual

A raccoon-like procyonid, of species Bassaricyon neblina, native to the Andean forests of Colombia and Ecuador.


Dogo Argentino

en-noun

Dogo Argentino (plural Dogos Argentinos)

From Spanish dogo argentino, from dogo (“molosser”) (from English dog) + argentino (“Argentine”).

A huge dog breed used in Argentina for big-game hunting which resembles a very large pitbull terrier.


viscacha rat

A South American rat-like rodent of the genera Octomys, Pipanacoctomys, and Tympanoctomys.


leporiphobia

For quotations using this term, see Citations:leporiphobia.


catitude

catitude (countable and uncountable, plural catitudes)

I didn't notice Mother until Goodyear leapt up to greet me—and with dirty paws too. Pewter, full of catitude, refused to move aside for Goodyear.

1988, Rita Mae Brown, Bingo, Bantam Dell, published 2008, →ISBN, page 248:

Ally, the alpha cat in my household, has a severe case of catitude. She demands to sit on my lap and leaves as soon as she has altered whatever I was doing.

2003 October 5, “Cats' Drinking: Is It Smarts Or Snobbery?”, in The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, California:

Like "Garfield," "Catwoman" is really a parody of catitude, offering glib mockery of a domestic species notorious for its pride and hauteur.

2004 July 22, A. O. Scott, “FILM REVIEW; Not-So-Cuddly Cat: This One Cracks a Mean Whip”, in The New York Times:

(humorous) An attitude belonging to or befitting a cat.


nyao

From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃお (nyao).

Scorpion's body dropped to the ground as Felicia turned back into a cat. With a barely audible "nyao," she then began to lick and clean herself off.

1994 December 13, Mark Maestas, “Dream Tournament 3: Round 1 Results, Part 2”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):

Luna looked at me with a very skeptical face, "Nyao?!"
It must have been a cat's way of saying, 'You've got to be kidding!'

1997 August 16, Terra, “[XOver] [FanFic] Star98 - Episode 2: The Lost Senshi”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet):

I'd Be The Family Kitty Cat! Nyao! Heehee! :::lies down on a rug and purrs:::

2001 March 25, Aylakitty [username], “Re: If AFD was a family...”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

(anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.


caniform

Modern carnivores appeared as well, diverging into the feliforms (cats, hyaenas, and mongooses) and caniforms (dogs, bears, raccoons, weasels, and seals).

1997, Peter D. Ward, The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared, page 73:

It is representative of a group of early carnivores, the miacids, that were the ancestors of modern caniforms: the canids (that is, the dogs, coyotes, wolves, foxes, and jackals) and a large group made up of the bear, raccoon, and weasel families.

2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, The Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals, page 93:

Some paleontologists argue that in fact they^([extinct nimravids]) are closer to caniforms, while others place them as a distant relative of the feliforms.

2013, Donald R. Prothero, Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, page 544:

Any carnivore of the suborder Caniformia, which are regarded as dog-like.


windsucker

From wind + sucker. Where the bird or term of abuse sense is concerned, some believe the word is a recent bowdlerization of windfucker; however, it appears since at least the 17th century. See the etymology of windfucker.

Cle[rimont] Did you ever hear ſuch a Wind-ſucker, as this? / Dau[phine] Or ſuch a Rook as the other! that will betray his Maſter to be ſeen. Come, 'tis time we prevented it.

1609 December (first performance), Ben Jonson, “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 186, column 2:

For ſhame then let not this wind-ſucker, / At our diſgrace thus ſneer and ſnicker.

1678, Virgil, John Phillips, Maronides; or, Virgil Travesty, being a New Paraphrase, in Burlesque Verse, upon the Fifth and Sixth Book of Virgil’s Æneids, London: Printed for Obadiah Blagrave, at the Bear in St. Paul's Church-Yard, near the Little North Door, →OCLC, book V, page 55:

What do you here? / Why do ye vex a Woman of her Goodneſs, / Her State and Worth? Can yo' bring a fair Certificate / That you deſerve to be her Footmen? Husbands, Puppies? / Husbands for Whores and Bawds, away you Wind-ſuckers; […]

1750, John Fletcher, “Wit without Money”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher, volume II, London: Printed for J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, →OCLC, act IV, scene i, page 337:

Carlisle fell because Wade is a senile old windsucker […]

1989, Patricia Gaffney, Sweet Treason (Leisure Historical Romance), New York, N.Y.: Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, 2000, →ISBN, page 63:

(archaic) Synonym of windfucker.
(derogatory) A term of abuse.


windsucking

Wind-sucking bears a close analogy with Crib-biting[…], it arises from the same causes, and the same results follow. The Horse stands with his neck bent, his head drawn inward, his lips alternately a little opened and then closed, and a noise is heard as if he were sucking[…]. It is a Vice.

1847, George Henry Hewit Oliphant, “III. [Diseases, Defects or Alterations in Structure, and Bad Habits.]”, in The Law Concerning Horses, Racing, Wagers and Gaming; with an Appendix Containing Recent Cases, Statutes, &c., London: S[tephen] Sweet, 1, Chancery Lane, law bookseller and publisher, →OCLC, page 62:

Cribbing is scarcely a disease, though it may be productive of disease of the larynx. It is a habit usually acquired by young horses, either in idle moments or by imitation, often from the dam. The colt takes any wooden substance, such as a paling or manger, between his teeth and gnaws it. From that he proceeds to inhale the air, and often, when this habit has been acquired, he becomes a windsucker. It is probable that windsucking produces irritation in the throat and air-passages, and may lead to some enlargement, and consequently to roaring; but it is more probable that windsucking is the effect of disease.

1892, [Frederick Tynte] Warburton, “Accidents and Diseases”, in The Race Horse: How to Buy, Train, and Run Him, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C., →OCLC, page 261:

A horse's habit of arching the neck and sucking air into the windpipe.


catness

My theory is that every person contains a certain predetermined essence of either catness or dogness; a rare few contain essences of both. Catness is caution, privacy, order, mind; dogness is impulsiveness, sociability, chaos, body.

2002, Rebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song & Other Rememberings, page 110:

For example, every cat is different, but all cats share the same catness because they participate in the cat form.

2009, Naomi Zack, The Handy Philosophy Answer Book, page 31:

The cat didn't have a sense of what a witch was, and didn't care, but it was willing to tolerate his catness as long as he maintained proper deference.

2013, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Promises to Keep, page 125:


Soay

1961 August 3, Peter Jewell, The wild sheep of St Kilda, New Scientist, No. 246, page 268,
These apparently wild Soay sheep have bred on the island for centuries, virtually untended by Man. They are a relic of primitive domestic sheep, little improved from their wild progenitors.

We first discuss a multiyear study on Soay sheep (Ovis aries) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) that has successfully yielded a sophisticated understanding of population regulation (Clutton-Brock et al., 1997).

2000, Laurence D. Mueller, Amitabh Joshi, Stability in Model Populations, page 250:

Such selective antagonism can be seen as a form of parent-offspring conflict and has been demonstrated in Soay sheep (Wilson et al. 2005c).

2009, Alistair J. Wilson, Marco Festa-Bianchet, “5: Maternal Effects in Wild Ungulates”, in Dario Maestripieri, Jill M. Mateo, editors, Maternal Effects in Mammals, page 94:

A primitive breed of domestic sheep descended from feral sheep on the island of Soay, Scotland.


puppyship

The puppy, a wee thing, rotund as a butter ball, wandered into the police station several days ago. His puppyship made himself at home immediately.

1905 November 27, “Police Are In Mourning”, in The Spokesman-Review:

About this time his master folds up his paper, tells his puppyship, "No, he can't come," and is gone to the office, wherever that is.

1917, C. Arthur Coan, The Fragrant Note Book: Romance and Legend of the Flower Garden and the Bye-Way, G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1917, page 32:

He displaced a warm whimpering bundle of young dog from the fur robe and handed him to Minette.
The girl gathered up his puppyship and held him close against her. He curled down contentedly absorbing the warmth of her arms and body.

1921, Mary Briarly, In His Own Image, The Macmillan Company, published 1921, page 60:

(humorous) Informal title applied to a puppy.


zeren

From Russian дзерен (dzeren), from Mongolian зээр (zeer).

Only one is strictly Asiatic, Procapra (2), of which one species, P. gutturosa, the zeren, is the type host of Pallas' (1777) Lipoptena antilopes, a ked not seen again for the past 150 years.

1953, Brooklyn Entomological Society, Entomologica Americana, volumes 32-33, page 291:

1993, Lauren S. Bahr, Bernard Johnston, Goat Gazelle, entry in Collier's Encyclopedia, Volume 2, page 285,
There are two species of goat gazelles: the goa, or Tibetan, gazelle, Procapra picticandata, and the zeren, or Mongolian, gazelle, P. gutturosa.

Saigas share part of their home range with the zeren (Procapra gutturosa). These Mongolian antelopes lack the distended nose that characterizes the saiga, but males do develop a similarly curious enlarged throat sac during the mating season.

2010, Paula Hammond, The Atlas of Endangered Animals: Wildlife Under Threat Around the World, page 195:

Procapra gutturosa
Procapra gutturosa#Translingual

The Mongolian gazelle, Procapra gutturosa.


barasingha

barasingha (plural barasinghas or barasingha)

barasinghas (plural)
barasingha (plural)

From Hindi बारहसिंगा (bārahsiṅgā), literally ‘twelve-tined’.

We could see the herd of barasinghas grazing on an open grass patch to the left of the road ahead now.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 357:


American badger

American badger (plural American badgers)

Taxidea taxus, a species of badger native to North America.


andrewsarchus

Named after palaeontologist Roy Chapman Andrews.

named-after

We know that they're not pigs, some scientists think they're related to hippos, and others the andrewsarchus.

2016, Theo Fischer, The Forgotten Monsters of Prehistory, page 55:

An extinct mammal, of genus †Andrewsarchus, from the Eocene epoch.


feliform

en-adj

feliform (comparative more feliform, superlative most feliform)

more feliform (comparative)
most feliform (superlative)

From Latin feles, felis (“cat”) + -form.

Resembling a cat; applied to member of the Feliformia, a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of cat-like carnivorans, including cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, civets, etc.


feloid

feloid (comparative more feloid, superlative most feloid)

more feloid (comparative)
most feloid (superlative)


labbie

“I met Jenny about six years ago in our local dog park. Kaine and my labbie Rambo, were quick friends and would spend hours playing together. While Jenny and I struggled to communicate at first, I soon learnt that she could lip-read, and then we just clicked and she crept into my heart,” Holmes said.

2022 February 27, “Drive to make life easier for blind, deaf woman”, in Independent Online:


hippotherapy

(medicine) A specialized physiotherapy treatment that involves having a patient ride a horse to facilitate movement responses.


cat café

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cat café.wav

Taiwan opened the world’s first cat cafe in 1998 and Japan followed suit in 2004. Since then, the number of animal cafes has proliferated in Japan, where many people live in apartment buildings that forbid pets.

2016 April 22, Richard Smart, “Japanese cat cafe closed down over neglect fears”, in The Guardian:

A café that has domestic cats with which the clientele can interact.


pygmy marmoset

A small monkey (Cebuella pygmaea or Callithrix pygmaea), native to the far western Amazon rainforests.


yellow-throated marten

en-noun

yellow-throated marten (plural yellow-throated martens)

Martes flavigula
Martes flavigula#Translingual

An Asian species of marten, Martes flavigula.


kharza

yellow-throated marten
yellow-throated marten#English


Xoloitzcuintle

From Spanish, from Nahuatl xōlōitzcuintli, from Xolotl (“Aztec god”) + itzcuīntli (“dog”).


Yorkipoo

A small dog, crossbred from a Yorkshire Terrier and poodle, or descendant of such a dog.


English Shepherd

English Shepherd (plural English Shepherds)

A dog of a working breed related to the collies, originating in the United States.


Otterhound

From otter + hound, as once used for hunting otters.

A dog of a particular breed of scent hound, originating in Britain.


rakali

The rakali yawns, snaps its mouth shut and curls back to sleep, untroubled […].

2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 29:

(Australia) An amphibious rodent, Hydromys chrysogaster, found throughout Australia, having dark fur and a white-tipped tail; the water rat.


yaud

From Middle English yald, ȝald. Originally used to mean "mare", then "old mare". From Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (elde) or Erzya эльде (elde).
This term influenced and was influenced by jade, but is considered etymologically distinct by some references, while others consider the two terms to be variants of one another.

"[…]Nay by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come for it with one of the yauds."

1814, Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'tis Sixty Years Since, volume 2, published 1821, page 98:

"[…]Get on, my fine yaud, get on! There is nothing uncanny there."
Robin coaxed thus, as well to keep up his own spirits, as to encourage his mare; for the truth is, that his hair began to stand on end with affright.

a. 1835, “Seeking the Houdy”, in The Collected Works of James Hogg: Contributions to Annuals and Gift-books, James Hogg, published 2006, page 60:

[…]he threw it overboard, subjecting it to a spell, that it never should be removed save by the co-operation of "Two twin yauds, two twin oxen, two twin lads, and a chain forged by a smith of kind."

1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurrences, page 106:

(Scotland, Northern England) A workhorse; an old or worn-out mare.


anomalure

From Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos, “anomalous”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

der

A rodent of any species of the family Anomaluridae, having membranes between their front and hind legs like those of a flying squirrel (Sciuridae), found in central Africa


Pantanal cat

The Pampas cat was distinguished as its own species in 2005, along with the Pantanal cat (Leopardus braccatus), but taxonomists still disagree about whether there is enough biological difference to validate the move.

2010, Scott Stevenson, Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running, O'Reilly, page 397:

Any of species Leopardus braccatus (sometimes subspecies Leopardus colocola braccatus) of cats of tropical South America.


bluebuck

Almost all of these antelope communities have been reduced to scattered remnants by excessive hunting in the past and loss of habitat to agricultural development, but the bluebuck is the only antelope species which has been exterminated.

1989, J. L. Anderson, R. D. Carr, A. J. Hall-Martin, S. C. J. Joubert, M. E. Keep, P. H. Lloyd, S. Vrahimis, “Chapter 10: South Africa”, in Rod East, editor, Antelopes: Southern and South-Central Africa, page 58:

The blaubok, or bluebuck, was an antelope of the same genus as the roan and the sable; it was eliminated before 1800, primarily because the settlers took over the animal's grazing land for their cattle.

1993, Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, page 45:

The bluebuck, or blue antelope, was the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times. Bluebuck numbers began dropping about 2000 years ago and the species was already rare by the 1700s.[…]The last bluebuck was reportedly killed in 1799.

2008, United Nations Environment Programme, Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, page 26:

An extinct mammal, †Hippotragus leucophaeus, the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times (circa 1800).


Mitchell's hopping mouse

en-noun

Mitchell's hopping mouse (plural Mitchell's hopping mice)

Notomys mitchellii, a bipedal Australian rodent with large back legs.


jerboa kangaroo

jerboa kangaroo (plural jerboa kangaroos)

Bettongia penicillata
Bettongia penicillata#Translingual


pariah dog

Ultimately from Sanskrit पर (para, “distant; outsider, stranger”).

der

(zoology) Synonym of pye-dog: a half-wild stray dog, particularly in Indian contexts.


varying hare

Any hare or rabbit which becomes white in winter, especially the common hare of the northern United States and Canada.


spermaceti whale

en-noun

spermaceti whale (plural spermaceti whales)


winking monkey

greater spot-nosed monkey
greater spot-nosed monkey

(archaic) The greater spot-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans).


Pluto monkey

A long-tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus mitis mitus) with side whiskers. It is predominantly black with some grey parts and a white frontal band.


dog-faced baboon

dog-faced baboon (plural dog-faced baboons)

Papio hamadryas
Papio hamadryas#Translingual

(dated) A hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas).


puffing pig

(obsolete) A porpoise, especially the harbour porpoise.


North African elephant

North African elephant (plural North African elephants)

†Loxodonta africana pharaoensis, an extinct subspecies of elephant.


harpy bat

An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Nyctimene (especially Nyctimene cephalotes), with prominent tubular nostrils.


mastiff bat

These bats' faces are supposed to resemble those of mastiff dogs.

Any of certain species of the bat family Molossidae, usually the genera Eumops, Mops, Promops, or Chaerephon.


badger dog

From badger + dog, a calque of German Dachshund (from their use in hunting badgers).

(dated) Synonym of dachshund (“type of dog”)


bat-eared fox

Otocyon megalotis
Otocyon megalotis#Translingual

Otocyon megalotis, a canid of the African savanna, with large black ears and tawny fur.


muriqui

Borrowed from Portuguese muriqui from Old Tupi mbyryki.

Finally, if muriquis are strongly folivorous, they should conserve energy expenditure by using a relatively small area with just enough leaf sources to meet their nutritional needs, and devote a large proportion of their day to resting.

1992, Karen B. Strier, Faces in the Forest: The Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil:

A kind of monkey of the genus Brachyteles, found in Brazilian forests.


hearing-ear dog

hearing-ear dog (plural hearing-ear dogs)


brushtail possum

brushtail possum (plural brushtail possums)

From brush + tail (originally tailed) + possum. See brushtail.

The southerly caught the tree and tipped it. It fell with a crash, pinning a large brush-tailed possum to the ground.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 56:

A brush-tailed possum wanders close, and with his rifle scope he traces its outline […] .

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 67

There are 22 species in the family, the commonest being the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula (Fig. 7.5d, Plates 12 and 13), in Australia and the northern common cuscus, Phalanger orientalis, in New Guinea.

2005, Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 229:

Any nocturnal, arboreal, Australian possum of the genus Trichosurus, having a furred tail with a naked tip.


dairy cattle

Cattle of breeds developed primarily to provide milk; most of their male calves are used for the production of veal.


starting price

(horse racing) The final odds on a horse when the race starts; also used to designate a system of fixed-odds betting using such prices. Abbreviation: SP.


Dall sheep

Named after William Healey Dall (1845–1927), an American naturalist.

A species of wild sheep native to northwestern North America, Ovis dalli.


babakoto

A kind of large lemur, the indri (Indri indri).


Peruvian Paso

A horse of a Peruvian breed known for its smooth riding gait.


anaptomorphine

Any prehistoric primate the subfamily Anaptomorphinae


rearing bit

[if the horse] tosses up his head so violently or pertinaciously as to become unbearable , ride him a few times in a rearing bit

1857, Harry Hieover, Precept and Practice:

A bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting the head when rearing.


New World porcupine

New World porcupine (plural New World porcupines)

New World porcupines, found in both North and South America, are arboreal and climb trees with agility, aided in some species by a prehensile tail.

2004, Fred Cooke, editor, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, page 232:

The bizarre structure, shared with the New World porcupines, so impressed Stuart Landry that he argued for a common origin for the New World and Old World hystricomorphs long before the mainstream of biologists felt ready to do so (Pocock 1922; Dathe 1937; Landry 1957

2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, page 206:

New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227:

Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.


North American porcupine

North American porcupine (plural North American porcupines)

It is, however, different from the North American porcupine, which is a rodent but is a member of the family of Erethizontidae, which is not represented in South America.

1988, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Jealous Potter, page 108:

The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is the largest species in the family, usually weighing less than 7 kg (15.4 pounds) though males occasionally grow significantly larger.

2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, Rats, Bats, and Xenarthrans, page 113:

North American porcupines, as well as a range of other Hystricomorph rodents, engage in urine showering as part of courtship and other behaviors.

2012, Uldis Roze, Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide, unnumbered page:

North American Porcupines are widely distributed across North America, except on islands and in Arctic or alpine tundra, dry desert are as without trees, and intensively farmed lands that lack woodlots.

2012, Donna Naughton, The Natural History of Canadian Mammals, page 212:

Erethizon dorsatum
Erethizon dorsatum#Translingual

A species of New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.


Canadian porcupine

Canadian porcupine (plural Canadian porcupines)

There are deer (Caribou), bears, wolves, foxes, martens, otters, beavers, and Canadian porcupines in the interior; most of which are hunted for their skins by the few inhabitants of the coast.

1837, Henry Wolsey Bayfield, Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence, page 173:

The fisher is said to live much on frogs in the summer season; but I have been informed that its favourite food is the Canadian porcupine, which it kills by biting on the belly.

1838, Félix de Azara, The Natural History of the Quadrupeds of Paraquay and the River la Plata, page 262:

Canadian porcupines may have coats varying from almost black to grizzled brown or "tweedy" slate.

1958, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 29, page 99:

North American porcupine
North American porcupine

A North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).


Abert's squirrel

Abert's squirrel (plural Abert's squirrels)

Named after Colonel John James Abert, an American naturalist and military officer.

Sciurus aberti, a tree squirrel endemic to the Rocky Mountains from the United States to Mexico.


Mongolian gazelle

Mongolian gazelle (plural Mongolian gazelles)

A medium-sized antelope native to the semiarid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, as well as some parts of Siberia and China, Procapra gutturosa.


mountain degu

1990 [1936], James Frank Colyer (original author), A. E. W. Miles, Caroline Grigson (editors), Colyer's Variations and Diseases of the Teeth of Animals, 2003, Revised Edition, page 317,
In Octodontomys gliroides (mountain degu), the buccal surfaces of the upper cheek teeth are progressively turned more and more distally from the distal to the mesial ends of the arches, with P⁴ being nearly transverse to the line of the arch (Fig. 14.3).

A South American rodent, Octodontomys gliroides, related to the degus.


chinchilla rat

The chinchilla rat is a nocturnal rodent about the same size as a degu.[…]Chinchilla rats and degus live together in harmony, often seeming oblivious to each other's presence.

2001, Sharon Lynn Vanderlip, chapter I, in Degus, page 41:

Chinchilla rats look roughly like large woodrats (Neotoma, Cricetidae), reach over 400 millimeters in total length, and resemble octodontids in many ways.

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, 5th edition, page 232:

There are also two species of chinchilla rat, agile rock climbers that ascend bushes when feeding.

2013, Tim Burford, chapter I, in Chile Highlights, page 39:

Any of the caviomorph rodents of family Abrocomidae.

Famatina chinchilla rat (Abrocoma famatina


spiny rat

Spiny rats, Proechimys semispinosus, are rodents weighing up to 500 g which eat fruits and seeds that have fallen to the forest floor. In Lutz catchment, a spiny rat's territory is three-fifths as wide as an agouti's (Smythe et al. 1982).

1999, Egbert Giles Leigh Jr., Tropical Forest Ecology : A View from Barro Colorado Island, page 28:

Members of the important Neotropical family Echimyidae, which includes a viety of roughly rat-sized rodents, are called spiny rats.[…]Spiny rats are widely distributed in the Neotropics, occurring from Nicaragua southward through the northern half of South America to Paraguay and south-eastern Brazil.

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 232:

Any of certain caviomorph rodents of the family Echimyidae, especially of genus Proechimys, that resemble rats and have stiff, pointed hairs, or spines.

Any murine rodent of the genus Maxomys (sometimes considered a subgenus of Rattus).

Any murine rodent of the genus Tokudaia.

Any murine rodent of the genus Echiothrix.


Peary caribou

Named after the American explorer Robert Peary.

Rangifer tarandus pearyi, a small caribou found in the high Arctic islands of Canada's Nunavut and Northwest territories.


horse stance

A posture in Asian martial arts which takes its name from the position assumed when riding a horse.


Paso Fino

A horse of a breed originally imported to the Caribbean from Spain, prized for its smooth, natural, four-beat, lateral ambling gait.


Mongolian gerbil

Mongolian gerbil (plural Mongolian gerbils)

Meriones unguiculatus, a rodent of the subfamily Gerbillinae.


South American gray fox

South American gray fox (plural South American gray foxes)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see South American, gray fox (Urocyon).


Patagonian gray fox

Patagonian gray fox (plural Patagonian gray foxes)

South American gray fox
South American gray fox


Patagonian fox

Patagonian fox (plural Patagonian foxes)


kodkod

Stalking them among the bamboo might be the guiña or kodkod, a spotted cat with a dark band across its throat and large feet.

2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 57:

Leopardus guigna
Leopardus guigna#Translingual

A small South American feline, Leopardus guigna.


hoary bat

Lasiurus cinereus
Lasiurus cinereus#Translingual

Lasiurus cinereus, a vespertilionid bat that occurs throughout most of North America and much of South America, with disjunct populations in the Galápagos Islands and Hawaii.


walking whale

Ambulocetus natans, an early cetacean that could walk as well as swim.


kholsun

The Dhole, or kholsun as it is sometimes called, inhabits the western frontiers of British India, its range extending from Midnapore to Chamar, but does not appear to take up its residence in other parts of the same great country.

1865, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History...: Mammalia, Volume 1, page 253:

(obsolete) The dhole, an Asian wild dog.


bulldog bat

Any of the bats of the family Noctilionidae, sole extant genus Noctilio.


Irish elk

†Megaloceros giganteus, a very large extinct deer.


wolf whelp

A young, especially an infant, wolf; a wolf cub.


Bavarian mountain hound

Bavarian mountain hound (plural Bavarian mountain hounds)


hare kangaroo

(archaic) A small species of kangaroo (Lagorchestes leporides), resembling the hare in size and colour.


tomb bat

Presumably so-called as some were found inhabiting in tombs.

Any of various species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous


desert mouse

Pseudomys desertor, a murid found only in Australia.


Australian bear

Australian bear (plural Australian bears)


horsethief

1951, William Faulkner, Notes on a Horsethief, Greenville: Levee Press:


fish-eating rat

fish-eating rat (plural fish-eating rats)

A New World rat of the genus Neusticomys.


horseshoe bat

The name refers to a horseshoe-shaped protuberance which these bats have on their noses.


Scottish terrier

Scottish terrier (plural Scottish terriers)


cowpony

He was just in time to see a black streak of horse flesh from Powder River break the track record with the two fastest laps ever made by a cowpony in the Cheyenne Relays.

1936 August, Joseph S. Fleming, “Flying Hoofs. Chick Norris again leads his Mounted Patrol”, in Boys' Life, page 10:

A horse ridden by cowboys when controlling cattle


pupper

Around the same time, “wholesome” memes of cute doggos and puppers rejuvenated social media feeds that seemed daily filled with fresh horrors.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

(Internet slang) Synonym of dog or puppy.


scrag whale

Eschrichtius robustus
Eschrichtius robustus#Translingual

A North Atlantic baleen whale now generally considered to be part of an extinct population of the gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus, once considered by some the young of right whales (Balaenidae).


rosinback

From rosin + back, since the horse's back would be rubbed with sticky rosin to keep the rider from slipping.

A horse used for bareback riding performances.


Bedlington terrier

Bedlington terrier (plural Bedlington terriers)

Named after the mining town of Bedlington, Northumberland in North East England.

A small terrier of a breed resembling lambs.


beisa

A species of antelope from East Africa (Oryx beisa, East African oryx)


boerboel

From Afrikaans boer (“farmer”) + boel, a shortening of boelhond (“bulldog”).

A large mastiff dog breed from South Africa


New York bat

(dated) A bat of species Vespertilio noveboracensis, now Lasiurus borealis).


mule armadillo

Dasypus hybridus
Dasypus hybridus#Translingual

(archaic) Dasypus hybridus, the southern long-nosed armadillo.


mole shrew

short-tailed shrew
w:en:short-tailed shrew

Synonym of short-tailed shrew, any of the genus Blarina of relatively large shrews with relatively short tails, found in North America.


mountain antelope

mountain antelope (plural mountain antelopes)


border collie

Essentially the collie from the Scottish and English borders.

A herding dog of a breed originating near the border between England and Scotland, and specifically bred for intelligence and obedience.


man ape

(dated) Any anthropoid ape, such as the gorilla.


monk bat

So called because the males live in communities by themselves.

(dated) The brown mastiff bat (Prompos nasutus)


back the field

en-verb

back the field (third-person singular simple present backs the field, present participle backing the field, simple past and past participle backed the field)

backs the field (present singular third-person)
backing the field (participle present)
backed the field (participle past)
backed the field (past)

(horse racing) To bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win.


bastard gemsbok

en-noun

bastard gemsbok (plural bastard gemsboks)

A calque of Afrikaans bastergemsbok, itself based on similarities between the animal and the gemsbok.

roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), native to savannas of the central latitudes of Africa.


bridle wrist

(equestrianism) The wrist of the left hand, in which a horseback rider holds the bridle.


barren-ground caribou

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories

Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, a subspecies of caribou found mainly in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, along with western Greenland.


oldfield mouse

* (Peromyscus polionotus): ?
* (Thomasomys): Named for Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858 – 1929), a British zoologist.

In the wild, deer mice and oldfield mice never interbreed.

2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times:

Peromyscus polionotus, a nocturnal rodent in the family Cricetidae, found in the southeastern United States.


tiger cat

A capacious room […] slowly appeared around me, large enough to accommodate perhaps twenty people, though presently home only to two potaroos & one tiger cat which had scampered out after I entered.

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 392:

(Australia) A tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus).


pampas cat

Leopardus pajeros, a small South American cat.


blood horse

A horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized stock (typically a Thoroughbred or Arabian)


short-tailed weasel

short-tailed weasel (plural short-tailed weasels)

Mustela erminea
Mustela erminea#Translingual

(US) The stoat or ermine (Mustela erminea).


cotton rat

Any member of the rodent tribe Sigmodontini, that build their nests from cotton, and can damage cotton crops.


beluga whale

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Delphinapterus leucas
Delphinapterus leucas#Translingual

beluga

Synonym of beluga (“a cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean”)


Bryde's whale

Named after Johan Bryde, Norwegian consul to South Africa who helped establish the first modern whaling station in the country.

Balaenoptera brydei
Balaenoptera brydei#Translingual

Balaenoptera brydei, a species of rorqual.


barking squirrel

barking squirrel (plural barking squirrels)


zebra wolf

Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylacinus cynocephalus#Translingual


slow loris

Any of several species of strepsirrhine primates which make up the genus Nycticebus, with a round head, narrow snout, large eyes, and a toxic bite.


woolly rhinoceros

An extinct rhinoceros (†Coelodonta antiquitatis), common throughout Europe and northern Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.


American longhair

American longhair (plural American longhairs)


earth dog

Any dog that digs in the earth, for example to catch foxes in holes


black cattle

(UK, dated) Any bovine cattle reared for its meat, as opposed to dairy cattle.


false vampire bat

false vampire bat (plural false vampire bats)

A New World bat, Vampyrum spectrum; spectral bat.


spectral bat

Vampyrum spectrum, the largest carnivorous bat.


dandy brush

A kind of hard-bristled brush used in grooming horses.


Cane Corso

/ˌkɑːneɪ ˈkɔːsəʊ/

From Italian cane corso (literally “Corsican dog”), with adjective corso being more likely derived from Latin cohors (“farmyard; enclosure”).

bor

A dog of an Italian breed valued as a companion, guardian and hunter.


Entlebucher

Borrowed from German Entlebucher Sennenhund, from Entlebuch, a municipality in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

A dog of a breed traditionally used by herders in the Swiss Alps.


Kitti's hog-nosed bat

en-noun

Kitti's hog-nosed bat (plural Kitti's hog-nosed bats)

Named after Kitti Thonglongya, the Thai zoologist who discovered it.

Craseonycteris thonglongyai, a small bat with a distinctive pig-like snout, found in western Thailand and southeast Burma.


Asian badger

Meles leucurus, a badger native to China, Kazakhstan, the Korean Peninsula and Russia, generally lighter in colour than the European badger.


widow monkey

Either of two small South American monkeys, collared titi (Callicebus torquatus) or yellow-handed titi (Cheracebus lucifer), black except for the dull whitish arms, neck, and face, and a ring of pure white around the face.


Poland China

A large, mostly black domestic pig of a breed from Ohio, United States, deriving from many breeds including the Berkshire and Hampshire.


mulgara

A marsupial carnivore of the genus Dasycercus, closely related to the Tasmanian devil and the quolls.


mouse-eared bat

mouse-eared bat (plural mouse-eared bats)

The wildcat and mouse-eared bat are on the brink, but deer are spreading and otters bouncing back, according to a comprehensive analysis.

2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian:

Any of the genus Myotis of bats within the family Vespertilionidae.


ghost-faced bat

ghost-faced bat (plural ghost-faced bats)

Bats of genus Mormoops, found mainly in South America.


mouse opossum

Any of the didelphids in the genera Marmosa, Thylamys, and Tlacuatzin.


freetail

Mexican free-tailed bat
Mexican free-tailed bat

Mexican free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis


fox squirrel

Sciurus niger, the largest tree squirrel native to North America.


pocket mouse

A mouse of the subfamily Perognathinae
Perognathus species

A mouse of the subfamily Perognathinae
Chaetodipus species


catslaughter

From cat + slaughter. Compare manslaughter.

After a long and patient investigation of facts, the Coroner returned a verdict of wilful catslaughter against a party or parties unknown.

1862, Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Aunt Judy's Letters, page 93:

Bill intends to file a charge of "catslaughter" against the villian when caught.

'... And then he committed — catslaughter.'
Caleb, although sensible that his leg had been pulled, roared with laughter.

1934, Horace Annesley Vachell, Nether Applewhite: A Story of Strange Lives in an English Village:

Had Barkley done in the Topeka cat, it may have been manslaughter, or catslaughter, I guess, but not murder.

2006, Al Martinez, Barkley: A Dog's Journey, →ISBN:

The woman was suing the fire service for catslaughter.

2010, Michael Lawrence, Jiggy McCue: Kid Swap, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

The killing of a cat, the slaughter of cats.


deerslaughter

From deer + slaughter. Compare manslaughter.

Some centuries ago, in the royal forests of England the penalty was higher for deerslaughter than for manslaughter; but that was unreasonable, and the present arrangement shows the progress of law-reform.

1883, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature:

They have behaved badly: charges against them now stand at murder of one kitten, chickenslaughter in the second degree, deerslaughter in the first degree, conspiracy to kill more deer, attempted murder of a goat (two overt acts), ...

... until I noticed a mangled carcass splayed across the breakdown lane, decided to stop and inspect it and took notes on the anatomy of victims of vehicular deerslaughter.

2009, Nate Jordon, Various, Monkey Puzzle #6, Monkey Puzzle Press, →ISBN, page 7:

(rare) The killing of a deer, the slaughter of deer; cervicide.


Namaqua rock rat

Namaqua rock rat (plural Namaqua rock rats)

Aethomys namaquensis, an African rodent.


cotton mouse

Peromyscus gossypinus, an omnivorous rodent of the southeastern United States, often using cotton for nest construction.


shrew-faced squirrel

shrew-faced squirrel (plural shrew-faced squirrels)

Rhinosciurus laticaudatus, a sciurid rodent of Asia.


chimpkind

The one percent of difference between human and chimpkind, as it turns out, makes all the difference.

2007, Max Oelschlaeger, “Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide”, in Charles S. Brown, Ted Toadvine, editors, Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 7:

He achieved great PR for chimpkind and even made the front cover of Life magazine.

2008, BBC Wildlife, volume 26, numbers 1-7, page 83:

It's another seamless motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis (though to me Caesar looks more like chimpkind's answer to Sean Bean) and the film's biggest weakness is that homo sapiens offers little to rival it.

2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian:


race cloth

(historical or archaic) A cloth worn by a racehorse, having pockets to hold the weights prescribed.


tuxedo cat

From the similarity between the cat's coloration and a tuxedo.

A domestic cat with a white front and black fur elsewhere.


micromammal

(zoology) Any very small mammal (such as a shrew or mouse)


cawquaw

From Cree kâkwa / ᑳᑲᐧ (kaakay, “porcupine”).

The Cawquaw or Urson of North America also inhabits trees. It has not, however, a prehensile tail, that member being merely used as a weapon of offence, the short, sharp quills witb which it is armed sticking in the wounds […]

1872, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton's Brave tales, bold ballads, and travels and perils, page 540:

(rare, possibly dated) A Canadian porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).


one-horse race

Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y.

1927 June 13, “Sport: Again, McAtee”, in Time, retrieved 2014-07-26:

Sinister Minister . . . kept extending his lead and turned the stretch run into a one-horse race.

2006 April 16, Bill Finley, “Sinister Minister Joins Baffert's Derby Stable”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-07-26:

(horse racing, informal) A horse race in which a single horse takes such a considerable lead that the other horses are no longer contenders to win.


grolar bear

A hybrid of the grizzly bear and the polar bear.


northern hairy-nosed wombat

northern hairy-nosed wombat (plural northern hairy-nosed wombats)

The decline of the northern hairy-nosed wombats has been largely human-related.

2018 May 10, Christopher Knaus, The Guardian:

A species of wombat, Lasiorhinus krefftii, now found only in Queensland, Australia.


leopardine

en-adj

leopardine (comparative more leopardine, superlative most leopardine)

more leopardine (comparative)
most leopardine (superlative)

My leopardine beauties are rarer

1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73

Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.


Winnie the Pooh

en-proper noun

Winnie the Pooh (plural Winnie the Poohs)

From a bear cub named Winnie, short for Winnipeg, and a swan named Pooh.

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne used hyphens, while the Disney version does not


dolphinkind

[…] one dedicated to the notion that the proper study of dolphinkind is dolphin: a man who believes that any discoveries made about the mammals should remain private and not be put to cheap, practical use.

1974, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 233, page 7:

So there is something a little odd about this solitary animal, who rarely allows anyone to touch him and seems to have no need of other dolphinkind.

1995, Patricia Levy, Direct from Southwest Ireland: Kerry and West Cork, page 179:

The Tillek said those points were the spaceships that had brought humankind and dolphinkind to Pern.

2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Dolphins of Pern, page 4:


Chiweenie

A dog that is a crossbreed of Chihuahua and dachshund.


northern three-toed jerboa

en-noun

northern three-toed jerboa (plural northern three-toed jerboas)

Dipus sagitta, a rodent in the family Dipodidae.


kukang

Of the genus Loris are two species, the Kukang or Lemur tardigradus, and the Nycticebus Javanicus, the latter of which however I have not seen.

1838, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, volume 7, page 69:

[…] leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kukangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell over the cliff and was dashed to pieces.

(archaic) Nycticebus coucang, the Sunda slow loris.


Coopworth

A sheep of a breed developed in New Zealand, used for both meat and wool.


tsessebe

A large African antelope, Damaliscus lunatus (formerly Alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartebeest, but having its horns regularly curved.


nail-tail wallaby

nail-tail wallaby (plural nail-tail wallabies)

nailtail wallaby
nailtail wallaby#English


nagapie

From Afrikaans nagapie (literally “night monkey”).


mohol bushbaby

en-noun

mohol bushbaby (plural mohol bushbabies)


slender loris

Any of the genus Loris of lorises native to India and Sri Lanka.


lambie

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Your lambies aren't lambies anymore, but they're pining for you just the same, and I'll drop them off on my way back if you want.

2008, Karen J. Hasley, Waiting for Hope, page 226:

The part I don't like about sheep and wool festivals? The part where the little lambies aren't considered part of the fiber-bearing aspect but as part of the snack-food aspect. Lambies on a stick or ground up into sausage are not nearly as much fun to imagine as gamboling lambies waiting happily to be shorn.

2011, Mary Beth Temple, The Secret Language of Knitters, page 113:

They are misguided by misinformation, and talking the Undisputed Truth is a physical means of weaning these little lambies from their childish and sheep like behaviour.

2014, Lee Maddaford, True Enlightenment, page 29:


walkie

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A pallet truck, beside which the operator must walk.


megatherium

megatherium (plural megatheriums or megatheria)

megatheriums (plural)
megatheria (plural)

A ground sloth of the extinct genus Megatherium


dibatag

A medium-sized slender antelope endemic to Ethiopia and Somalia, Ammodorcas clarkei.


pizzly

This means that ʽPizzlies’ (as recent polar bear/brown bear hybrids are known), are not a new phenomenon, but have been produced for hundreds of thousands of years.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 155:


purrfect

en-adj

purrfect (comparative more purrfect, superlative most purrfect)

more purrfect (comparative)
most purrfect (superlative)

but often with greater emphasis on the first syllable

Obligatory cat pun coming up . . . this book is a purrfect gift for the cat lady or cat dude in your life.

2013, NPR book review, quoted on the praise page of John Bradshaw, Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, Basic Books (2013), unnumbered page

For a “purrfect” Halloween costume, I make a black tail and pin it to the back of my dress, glue two black felt ears onto a hair band, and draw little black whiskers below my nose that I've rouged slightly pink.

2013, Sandra Magsamen, Living Artfully: A Heart-full Guide of Ideas and Inspirations That Celebrate Life, Love, and Moments That Matter, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

Now, Oscar was the most wonderful pet; attentive, affectionate, strangely thoughtful for a cat, a purrfect cat.

2015, Marty Whelan, That’s Life, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN:

(colloquial, humorous) Perfect, in contexts relating to cats.


Goeldi's monkey

en-noun

Goeldi's monkey (plural Goeldi's monkeys)


plains bison

Bison bison bison
Bison bison bison#Translingual

Bison bison bison, one of the two subspecies of the American bison, the other being the wood bison.


patas monkey

Erythrocebus patas
Erythrocebus patas#Translingual

Erythrocebus patas, a ground-dwelling African monkey.


Lipizzan

A horse of a breed closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria.


Chinese muntjac

Chinese muntjac (plural Chinese muntjacs)


addra

The M'horr is found in Western Africa, in the territories of the Sheikh of Wedroow; the Nanguer in Senegal; and the Addra in Nubia and Kerdofon.

1835, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals:

Almost white, addras lack the black side stripe that is found in most gazelles […]

1965, Leslie Brown, Africa: A Natural History:


sewer rat

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The black rat [...] became extinct in Britain following the Roman withdrawal, only to reappear in Norman times. Thereafter the black rat prospered - until the arrival of the larger brown rat (also known as the sewer rat or Norway rat), which reached Britain at about the time of the Hanoverian succession in the eighteenth century.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 272:

Rattus norvegicus
Rattus norvegicus#Translingual

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Any rat that lives in sewers.


Jafarabadi

One of a breed of water buffalo from Jafarabad, India. It is known for its large size.


faunch

en-verb

faunch (third-person singular simple present faunches, present participle faunching, simple past and past participle faunched)

faunches (present singular third-person)
faunching (participle present)
faunched (participle past)
faunched (past)

Uncertain. Used in Midland American English and Western American English. Entered the fanspeak body of slang after writer Noel Loomis used it in a review in Pro-Phile.

Instead of the fine faunching black mare he usually rode he was on a light grey today, a little slower if it came to a run from the Indians or a buffalo stampede, but much less conspicuous against the snow.

1954, Mari Sandoz, The Buffalo Hunters, published 2008, →ISBN, page 6:

Ecstatic, they faunched and gamboled and I could hardly get them in the traces.

1986, Jerry Bumpus, Heroes and Villains, →ISBN, The Outdoorsman, page 59:

(US, equestrianism) To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.


white rhinoceros

en-noun

white rhinoceros (plural white rhinoceros or white rhinoceroses)

white rhinoceros (plural)
white rhinoceroses (plural)

Perhaps simply from the color (compare black rhino), or perhaps from Dutch wijd (“wide”). See White Rhinoceros#Naming.

Ceratotherium simum
Ceratotherium simum#Translingual

An African species of rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum).

White Rhinoceros#Naming
White rhinoceros


kagwang

Philippine flying lemur
Philippine flying lemur

(Philippines) The Philippine flying lemur.


Philippine flying lemur

Philippine flying lemur (plural Philippine flying lemurs)

Cynocephalus volans, a kind of flying lemur.


sportive lemur

(zoology) Any of the lemurs in the family Lepilemuridae.


red river hog

A bush pig of species Potamochoerus porcus, native to forested areas of western and central Africa.


Simmental

An alpine valley in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.


deer mouse

In the wild, deer mice and oldfield mice never interbreed.

2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times:

Peromyscus maniculatus
Peromyscus maniculatus#Translingual

Any of the muroid rodents in the genus Peromyscus, especially Peromyscus maniculatus.

Many of the muroid rodents with notable jumping capability within the subfamily Neotominae (family Cricetidae), including all species in the genera Peromyscus and Habromys, as well as some species in several others.


eastern gray squirrel

eastern gray squirrel (plural eastern gray squirrels)

Sciurus carolinensis
Sciurus carolinensis#Translingual

The typical squirrel of eastern North America, of the species Sciurus carolinensis, invasive elsewhere.


bouvier des Flandres

bouvier des Flandres (plural bouviers des Flandres)

Borrowed from French bouvier des Flandres (“cattle-dog of Flanders”).

bor

A breed of very large black dog with terrier-like appearance.


northern raccoon

en-noun

northern raccoon (plural northern raccoons)

Procyon lotor
Procyon lotor#Translingual

A mammal of the species Procyon lotor, native to North America.


Bowen technique

Named after Thomas Ambrose Bowen (1916–1982).

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

A form of bodywork in alternative medicine, involving gentle rolling motions along the muscles, tendons, and fascia.


common rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus
Oryctolagus cuniculus#Translingual

An animal of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to southwestern Europe and northwest Africa, introduced and invasive elsewhere.


European rabbit

European rabbit (plural European rabbits)


duckmole

We can form a fairly clear idea from the duckmole and the kangaroo how the whole class of mammals have arisen from reptiles, but when we turn to geology we find the case greatly strengthened.

1906, Dennis Hird, A Picture Book of Evolution, volume 1, page 147:

“Duckmoles? I never heard of them.” His fleshy bill was the same shape as a duck's, but with comblike ridges inside the bottom half. “May I pick you up?” He nodded. “Mind the spurs on my hind feet, though. I've poison in them.”

2009, Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods, page 39:

“Tell me, sir,” she says, “does this duckmole, does it quack?”

2023, Kevin M. Miller, Wigs on the Green:


American black bear

American black bear (plural American black bears)

Ursus americanus
Ursus americanus#Translingual

A bear of the species Ursus americanus, native to cooler climates in North America.


Heidelberg man

Homo heidelbergensis
Homo heidelbergensis#Translingual

Homo heidelbergensis: A long-extinct hominid, of the Old World, from which modern humans are derived.


Lantian Man

a long-extinct hominid who lived in prehistoric China


Peking Man

A long-extinct hominid who lived in prehistoric China.


Rhodesian man

A long-extinct hominid who lived in Africa.


Flores Man

An extinct hominid who lived in Indonesia.


Ceprano Man

a long-extinct hominid who lived in prehistoric Italy


Guadalupe fur seal

Guadalupe fur seal (plural Guadalupe fur seals)

Arctocephalus townsendi, a fur seal found on Mexico's Guadalupe Island.


Piltdown Man

The Piltdown man of Sussex, England. Antiquity variously estimated at 100,000 to 300,000 years. The ape-like structure of the jaw does not prevent the expression of a considerable degree of intelligence in the face.

1914, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art:

(taxonomy) A supposed early human theorized from bone fragments said to have been found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, in 1912, but later identified as a forgery.


La Plata dolphin

La Plata dolphin (plural La Plata dolphins)

Pontoporia blainvillei, a dolphin found in the coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America.


blynx

(rare) The hybrid offspring of a bobcat and a Canada lynx.


springer antelope

springer antelope (plural springer antelopes)

Antidorcas marsupialis
Wikispecies:Antidorcas marsupialis

(archaic) springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)


springing cow

A cow or heifer which is close to calving.


symmetrodont

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Symmetrodonta</i>

(zoology) Any Mesozoic mammal of the order Symmetrodonta


pink fairy armadillo

en-noun

pink fairy armadillo (plural pink fairy armadillos)

Chlamyphorus truncatus
Chlamyphorus truncatus#Translingual

Chlamyphorus truncatus, a species of armadillo native to Argentina.


fistulous withers

It is now generally believed that fistulous withers are the result of a germ, probably picked up from the grass, although at one time they were thought to be caused by saddle or roller pressure.

1962, Catherine Harris, “Ailments”, in Practical Pony Keeping, London; Glagsow: Blackie, →OCLC, part 2 (Care of Your Pony), page 100:

The sooner fistulous withers is treated, the more likely that a cure is effected.

1997, Tony Pavord, Marcy Pavord, “Fistulous Withers”, in The Complete Equine Veterinary Manual: A Comprehensive and Instant Guide to Equine Health, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, published 1998, →ISBN, part III (A–Z of Diseases), page 154, column 2:

(veterinary medicine, pathology, equestrianism) Inflammation of the serous bursa of withers in horses which bursts outside, creating a fistula.


zemni

In the seal, the mole rat, the zemni rat, and the walrus, the auricle is absent.

1875 June 30, J. P. Pennefather, “The Sense of Hearing”, in The Dublin University Magazine, page 735:

(archaic) The Podolsk mole-rat (Spalax zemni)


otariine

This region is also rich in numbers and diversity of pinnipeds, including the odobenine walrus and four species of otariine or eared seals (the northern and southern fur seals, the California and Steller sea lions).

1978, Whalewatcher: Journal of the American Cetacean Society:


striped skunk

Mephitis mephitis
Mephitis mephitis#Translingual

A carnivore of the species Mephitis mephitis, known for the persistent pungent aroma of the scent it sprays when threatened.


whitebelly

whitebelly puffer

whitebelly tree frog

whitebelly damselfish

The only kind of tree frog I've seen around here is the whitebelly.

(often used attributively) An animal characterized by a white belly


Brussels griffon

Brussels griffon (plural Brussels griffons)

On Dec. 4, 2021, Twixie and Cowboy, both 2-year-old Brussels Griffons, were married at the Dallas home of the bride (Twixie), in the backyard. She wore an appliquéd lace bodice with a ruffle of layered tulle at the waist. The groom donned a handmade silk-cotton tuxedo and top hat.

2022 March 16, Sean Malin, “Love Is in the Air. So Is Dander.”, in The New York Times:

Any of several related breeds of toy dog from Belgium.


common squirrel monkey

common squirrel monkey (plural common squirrel monkeys)

Saimiri sciureus
Saimiri sciureus#Translingual

An arboreal monkey of the species Saimiri sciureus, native to tropical South America.


South American squirrel monkey

South American squirrel monkey (plural South American squirrel monkeys)

South American squirrel monkeys (plural)


long-tailed macaque

long-tailed macaque (plural long-tailed macaques)

Macaca fascicularis
Macaca fascicularis#Translingual

A primate of the species Macaca fascicularis, native to Southeast Asia.


western roe deer

western roe deer (plural western roe deer)

Capreolus capreolus
Capreolus capreolus#Translingual

A species of small deer (Capreolus capreolus) native to Europe and Asia Minor.


southern pig-tailed macaque

southern pig-tailed macaque (plural southern pig-tailed macaques)

Macaca nemestrina
Macaca nemestrina#Translingual

An Old World monkey of the species Macaca nemestrina, native to Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay peninsula.


pigtail macaque

pigtail macaque (plural pigtail macaques)

southern pig-tailed macaque
southern pig-tailed macaque

Any of two closely related SE Asian species of macaque:

A southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina);

A northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina).


Gunnison's prairie dog

Gunnison's prairie dog (plural Gunnison's prairie dogs)

Cynomys gunnisoni, a species of prairie dog primarily distributed in the Four Corners region of the United States.

Gunnison's prairie dog
John Williams Gunnison


Japanese macaque

Japanese macaque (plural Japanese macaques)

Japanese macaques have long red faces and eyes that are close-set like those of George W. Bush.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 152:

Macaca fuscata
Macaca fuscata#Translingual

A species of macaque, Macaca fuscata, native to Japan.


catty-mount

'He would have rid that horse, too,' pa says, 'if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me.'

1930, William Faulkner, “Darl”, in As I Lay Dying (Penguin Modern Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus, published 1980, →ISBN, page 81:

(dialectal, Southern US) Alternative spelling of catamount


acouchi

From French acouchi, probably from the same Old Tupi name akuti as agouti.

Any of several rodents of the genus Myoprocta of the family Dasyproctidae, smaller than agoutis, which inhabit Amazonia.


crab-eating macaque

crab-eating macaque (plural crab-eating macaques)


brush rabbit

A species of small cottontail rabbits found in the Pacific Slope of the western United States and Baja California, Sylvilagus bachmani.


desert cottontail

desert cottontail (plural desert cottontails)

A common species of cottontail rabbit native to the southwestern United States as well as northern and central Mexico, extending northward into Montana, Sylvilagus audubonii.


dogsicle

If this had been Noriega's old powerful glory days, my Jazzy could have ended up a dogsicle.

2004, Cindy Adams, The Gift of Jazzy, page 220:

My fur catches the flakes like Velcro and I freeze into a dogsicle.

2009, Berkeley Breathed, chapter 12, in Flawed Dogs: The Novel: The Shocking Raid on Westminster:

Though you weren't cold, you were shivering like a dogsicle.

2010, Terry Bain, You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend, page 28:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen dog.


catsicle

He slipped out the back door, and we did not see him for two full days. The temperature dropped dramatically, it was close to freezing those two nights. We figured, too bad, the little bugger had it made, with us, and now he'll be a catsicle or a catsplat in the road...So we gave up on him, and went to the Humane Society, and adopted a bouncing bruiser named Smokey.

1995 November 21, Virtuanna [username], “Re: A Pox Upon The Kitten Dumpers”, in rec.pets.cats (Usenet):

'The cat's gone,' my father said. 'Face it, that cat can hardly stay alive inside the house. She's not coming back. And if you hold the door open much longer, the rest of us will freeze to death too.'
'Poppy!' my stepmother shouted.
'She's frozen now,' I said helpfully. 'She's a catsicle.'

2003, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, published 2004, →ISBN, page 145:

I know for damn sure watching catsicles form outside my kitchen window would drive me out of my mind with guilt.

2006, Nina Malkin, An Unlikely Cat Lady: Feral Adventures in the Backyard Jungle, Globe Pequot, →ISBN, page 48:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen cat.


pigsicle

Of course, I jokingly offered the girls our frozen pig. After wiping away the snow and rapping my knuckles on it to demonstrate that it was a solidly frozen pigsicle, the girls looked at each other in amazement and politely refused.

2006, Ben Applebaum, Ryan McNally, & Derrick Pittman, Class Dismissed: 75 Outrageous, Mind-Expanding College Exploits (and Lessons That Won't Be on the Final), Villard, →ISBN, page 24:

I was buried with only my snotty snout sticking out. I was frozen. I could become a pigsicle.

2011, James V. Shubert, Salami's Fire: A Piggy's Trial by Fire, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 31:

“I don't have to worry about my bed partner turning into a pigsicle any longer.”

2013, Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig, Harcourt Children's Books, →ISBN, page 173:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen pig.


lion tamarin

Named so because of the mane surrounding their face.

Any of four species of small New World monkeys that constitute the genus Leontopithecus.

leeuwaapje

any of four species of small New World monkeys that constitute the Leontopithecus genus


black rhino

black rhinoceros
black rhinoceros#English


maned rat

Lophiomys imhausi, a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine.


spotted skunk

Any animal of the genus Spilogale, native to North and Central America.


hog-nosed skunk

hog-nosed skunk (plural hog-nosed skunks)

Any animal of the genus Conepatus, native to the Americas.


Bili ape

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

A gorilla-like type of chimpanzee found in the Bili Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


ground sloth

ground sloth (countable and uncountable, plural ground sloths)

Any of various extinct species of sloth in several families which are believed, due to their size and/or body type, to have lived on the ground rather than in trees.


Pig War

(historical) A diplomatic dispute involving the United States and the United Kingdom over the Oregon Treaty boundary around the San Juan Islands, which began with an American farmer shooting a British company's pig in 1859.


mombie

A mombie is a woman who "changes" after having a baby. She's been brainwashed by motherhood, […]. She loves nothing more than joining an army of other mombies, so don't be surprised if your old friend-turned-mombie begins to spend her time primarily with other mombies who are all covered in some kind of murky baby secretion.

2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents, →ISBN:

The woman who used to start the day with a Spin class with Suzanne turned into a mombie—a mom zombie who was a shadow of her former self. Showering was no longer important. Why bother?

2016, Suzanne Riss, Jill Sockwell, The Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A mother who is consumed by raising her children to the point of being sleep-deprived or simply obsessed, and hence zombie-like.


Neanderthalian

Homo neanderthalensis
Homo neanderthalensis#Translingual

Neanderthal (member of Homo neanderthalensis)


pad elephant

An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of a howdah for carrying passengers.


Thomson's gazelle

Thomson's gazelle (plural Thomson's gazelles)

Named after the Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson

A gazelle of species Eudorcas thomsonii.


three-toed sloth

three-toed sloth (plural three-toed sloths)

A sloth of the genus Bradypus having three toes on each limb.


delphinology

And yet, only some of the mysteries I wanted to explore lay within the limited purview of delphinology. There were associated spiritual, even paranormal, issues—taboo lines of inquiry shunned by modern science—that were too integrally bound up in the whole enigma for dismissal or avoidance.

2016, Frank Joseph, Our Dolphin Ancestors: Keepers of Lost Knowledge and Healing Wisdom:


delphinologist

An expert on dolphins, someone who studies delphinology


Tamworth

Tamworth
Tamworth pig
Tamworth, Staffordshire

Lennox and Addington County
Lennox and Addington County#English

A community of Stone Mills, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.


Teeswater

From Tees + water, after the river in northern England.

One of an old English breed of sheep, allied to the Leicester.


American lion

An extinct lion of subspecies †Panthera leo atrox or species †Panthera atrox, endemic to North America and northwestern South America during the Pleistocene epoch.


seecatch

Borrowed from Russian сека́ч (sekáč, “adult male boar, hog or seal”).

bor

Callorhinus ursinus
Callorhinus ursinus#Translingual

(Alaska) A full-grown male northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus).


Yangtze dolphin

en-noun

Yangtze dolphin (plural Yangtze dolphins)


Chinese river dolphin

Chinese river dolphin (plural Chinese river dolphins)


whitefin dolphin

whitefin dolphin (plural whitefin dolphins)


Chinese white dolphin

Chinese white dolphin (plural Chinese white dolphins)

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin

A subspecies of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis), of the Pearl River Delta, which become whitish pink coloured as they age.


Clydesdale terrier

Clydesdale terrier (plural Clydesdale terriers)

One of a breed of small silky-haired terriers related to, but smaller than, the Skye terrier, having smaller and perfectly erect ears.


long-eared guinea pig

long-eared guinea pig (plural long-eared guinea pigs)

Due to the keeping of rabbits as pets being illegal in some places.


laboratory mouse

laboratory mouse (plural laboratory mice)

A small mammal of the order Rodentia, usually Mus musculus, which is bred and kept for scientific research.

實驗鼠 /实验鼠

small mammal of the order Rodentia which is bred and kept for scientific research


ratton

From Middle English ratoun, from Anglo-Norman ratoun and Middle French raton, corresponding to rat + -oon.

“A Yorkshire burr,” he affirmed, “was as much better than a Cockney’s lisp, as a bull's bellow than a ratton’s squeak.”

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Mr. Yorke (continued)”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 67:

To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.

1873, Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat, “Glossarial Index”, in Specimens of Early English, volumes II: From Robert of Gloucester to Gower, A.D. 1298—A.D. 1393, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 490:

(now Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A rat.


Moloney's mimic bat

Moloney's mimic bat (plural Moloney's mimic bats)

Named after British colonial administrator Cornelius Alfred Moloney.

named-after

Mimetillus moloneyi, a species of vesper bat found in Africa.


monito del monte

en-noun

monito del monte (plural monitos del monte)

Borrowed from Spanish monito del monte (“little monkey of the bush”).

bor

A small marsupial of the order Microbiotheria native to Chile and Argentina, Dromiciops gliroides.


huarizo

The hybrid offspring of a male llama and a female alpaca.


ship of the desert

en-noun

ship of the desert (plural ships of the desert)


dromedary camel

dromedary camel (plural dromedary camels)


Sulimov dog

Named after its original breeder, Russian scientist Klim Sulimov.

A hybrid canid, the offspring of Lapponian Herders and golden jackals.


Lapponian Herder

Lapponian Herder (plural Lapponian Herders)

A breed of dog from Finland, used by the Sami to herd reindeer.


Savannah cat

A hybrid between a serval and a domestic cat.


Canada lynx

Lynx canadensis
Lynx canadensis#Translingual


pocket pet

Any very small mammal, such as a mouse or rat, commonly kept as a household pet.


snubfin

A dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni, that lives in northern Australian waters


longy

A Manx cat with a long tail, that therefore cannot be shown at a Manx show.


silflay

Coined by Richard Adams in Watership Down as part of the fictional language Lapine, which in the story is spoken by rabbits. The word silflay (“to eat outdoors”) is derived from silf (“outdoors”) + flay (“food”).

Rabbits were out on silflay, and fat spiders hung motionless in the centre of damp webs.

1981, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, The Trials of Worzel Gummidge, Puffin, →ISBN, page 171:

Picnickers, golden eagles and bunnies sunning themselves on silflay will therefore be glad that FoE has drawn up a set of guidelines for local authorities and a code of conduct for ATB users.

1984, Town and Country Planning, volume 53, number 10, page 287:

Three rabbits came, and once they were at silflay the gunslinger pulled leather. He took them down, skinned them, gutted them, and brought them back to the camp.

2003, Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, 2nd edition, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 142:

If I’m a rabbit I jump at sounds. I live in a burrow of motors. I want to jump, but cannot. The ceiling is too low in this burrow. Only rarely can I go out to silflay. I am aware of the coming and going of the sun because of a distant glow. I can barely perceive the white incandescence.

2011, Rupert Schmitt, The Mad Professor, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 485:

(of rabbits) The act of eating outdoors.


Steller sea lion

Steller sea lion (plural Steller sea lions)

Named after the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.

A species of sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus, the largest of the eared seals.


giant mouse lemur

giant mouse lemur (plural giant mouse lemurs)

They are considerably larger than other mouse lemurs.

Any of the strepsirrhine primates of genus Mirza.


Marco Polo sheep

Marco Polo sheep (plural Marco Polo sheep)

Ovis ammon polii, a subspecies of argali found in mountainous regions of Central Asia.


cimolodontan

(zoology) Any of the suborder †Cimolodonta of extinct mammals that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene.


axis deer

A South Asian deer, the chital, Axis axis


mad dog

(aviation) A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft.


allotherian

The gondwanatherian Vintana showing a combination of primitive and highly derived features recently described from the Maastrichtian of Madagascar [75 ] is another example of insular mosaicism in an allotherian mammal but from Southern Hemisphere.

2015 July 16, “Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island””, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the infraclass †Allotheria of extinct mammals.


djadochtatherioid

Any of the superfamily †Djadochtatherioidea of extinct mammals,


eulipotyphlan

In conclusion, Barbatodon transylvanicus was an insular primitive multituberculate with a very hard diet and red iron pigmented teeth showing a pattern distribution similar to eulipotyphlan insectivores and grasping incisors that were not ever-growing.

Multiple studies of solenodon genes in the last 15 years have helped figure things out: solenodons are the sister group of all of the other eulipotyphlans.

2018 April 11, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

An insectivorous mammal of the order Eulipotyphla.


gondwanatherian

Any of the suborder †Gondwanatheria of extinct mammals


ptilodontoid

Any of the superfamily †Ptilodontoidea of extinct mammals.


taeniolabidoid

Until now, the oldest records of red tooth preservation date back to the late Paleocene Asian taeniolabidoid multituberculates Lambdopsalis bulla and Sphenopsalis nobilis, which have pigmented enamel on the ventrolateral surface of the incisors and the crown of the second upper and lower molars [26, 53, 54].

Any of the extinct superfamily †Taeniolabidoidea of mammals.


sigmodontine

These are not minor issues because the regional extinctions of small mammals are a widespread phenomenon in southern South America and have involved several sigmodontine and caviomorph rodent species.

2015 July 24, “Regional Extinctions and Quaternary Shifts in the Geographic Range of Lestodelphys halli, the Southernmost Living Marsupial: Clues for Its Conservation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any rodent of the subfamily Sigmodontinae


woolly rhino

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

woolly rhinoceros
woolly rhinoceros#English

(informal) Alternative form of woolly rhinoceros


short-faced bear

short-faced bear (plural short-faced bears)

The biggest of the Alaskan short-faced bears weighed over a ton, three times the weight of the biggest modern-day predator on land, the Siberian tiger, and four times that of an adult male grizzly bear.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 12:

An in the genus †Arctodus of extinct bears from Pleistocene North America,.


saiga antelope

Any of species Saiga tatarica of antelopes found in the steppes of Central Asia.


Shasta ground sloth

Shasta ground sloth (plural Shasta ground sloths)

Any member of species †Nothrotheriops shastensis of extinct ground sloths, from Pleistocene North America.


Harlan's ground sloth

Harlan's ground sloth (plural Harlan's ground sloths)

In honor of American paleontologist Dr. Richard Harlan, who first discovered and described the lower jaw in 1835.

Any of an extinct species, †Paramylodon harlani of ground sloths, from Pleistocene North America.


Columbian mammoth

Columbian mammoth (plural Columbian mammoths)

Any of the species Mammuthus columbi of extinct mammoths, from Pleistocene North America.


steppe mammoth

An extinct species of mammoth (†Mammuthus trogontherii or †Mammuthus armeniacus), from Pleistocene Eurasia.


Asian black bear

Asian black bear (plural Asian black bears)

The Auvergne bear, Ursus minimus, was similar to, but a little smaller than, the Asian black bear.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 140:

Ursus thibetanus
Ursus thibetanus#Translingual

A bear of the species Ursus thibetanus (previously known as Selenarctos thibetanus).


laurasiatherian

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Laurasiatheria</i>

(zoology) Any member of the Laurasiatheria.


northern fur seal

en-noun

northern fur seal (plural northern fur seals)

Arctocephalus ursinus. Northern Fur-Seal. Adult male grey-black; hair of the back long, black, reddish, with a subterminal band and a short grey tip; under fur short, wolly, red; the hair of the neck and front of the body longer, forming a kind of mane; lips and nose reddish; whiskers very long, strong, white, smooth, tapering to a fine point.

1859, John Edward Gray, “On the Sea-Bear of Foster, the Ursus marinus of Steller, Arctocephalus ursinus of Authors”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 103:

A fur seal of the species Callorhinus ursinus (formerly Arctocephalus ursinus), of the northern Pacific.


sea bear

(obsolete) Any of a number of pinnipeds, but mostly fur seals, and especially the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus.


ursine seal

(archaic) Any of several species of eared seal, but especially the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus


Central Asian Ovcharka

Central Asian Ovcharka (plural Central Asian Ovcharkas)

(zoology) A breed of large dog usually used as a livestock guardian.


Caucasian shepherd

Caucasian shepherd (plural Caucasian shepherds)

(zoology) A dog of a large breed commonly used to guard livestock.


tiang

The white-eared kob were joined by hundreds of thousands of mongalla gazelles and tiang, a species of antelope.

2007 June 12, Carl Zimmer, “In Sudan, an Animal Migration to Rival Serengeti”, in New York Times:


porcpisce

snores like a porcpisce

1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


Rambouillet

A sheep of a breed that originated in France.


rock hyrax

rock hyrax (plural rock hyraxes or rock hyraces)

rock hyraxes (plural)
rock hyraces (plural)

Procavia capensis
Procavia capensis#Translingual

A guinea pig-like, but larger, animal (Procavia capensis), native to much of Africa, the Middle East and the Arabian peninsula.


machairodontine

Any extinct carnivore of the subfamily Machairodontinae


Japanese marten

Japanese marten (plural Japanese martens)

Martes melampus
Martes melampus#Translingual

A marten of the species Martes melampus, found in Japan and Korea.


pizzly bear

A hybrid of the polar bear and the grizzly bear.


woolly monkey

A New World monkey in the genera Lagothrix and Oreonax in subfamily Atelinae.


bucardo

In 2008 there was an attempt to revive the Spanish bucardo, a subspecies of ibex.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 308:

The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica).


warru

The black-flanked rock wallaby (Petrogale lateralis).


Maclear's rat

Named after Captain John Maclear (1838–1907) of the British survey-ship HMS Flying-fish, who collected the specimen from Christmas Island in 1886.

†Rattus macleari, a species of brown rat once endemic to Christmas Island, now extinct.


bulldog rat

A dark rat once endemic to Christmas Island (†Rattus nativitatis), now extinct.


bubal

The bubal hartebeest, which is the typical representative of the group with U-shaped horns, is the smallest of all the species, and a native of North Africa, where it is known from the interior of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, while it formerly extended into Egypt.

1908, Richard Lydekker, The Game Animals of Africa, page 95:

An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest (†Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus), which was formerly native to northern Africa.


eomysticetid

(zoology) Any member of the Eomysticetidae, a family of extinct mysticetes.


tranatocetid

This anatomy is superficially similar to that of Cetotheriidae and some tranatocetids were previously considered to be cetotheres and even identified as Cetotherium.

2015 September 3, “From Problem Taxa to Problem Solver: A New Miocene Family, Tranatocetidae, Brings Perspective on Baleen Whale Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the family †Tranatocetidae, which is represented by the sole species †Tranatocetus argillarius, a cetacean.


afrosoricid

(zoology) Any member of the order Afrosoricida, a golden mole, an otter shrew, or a tenrec.


dama gazelle

A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert (Nanger dama).


apterodontine

We can also note that apterodontines and hyainailourines often display more than two mental foramina, while hyaenodontids very rarely display more than two, and have a weak ventral concavity anterior to the angular process.

2015 September 24, “A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the Apterodontinae.


blue monkey

A monkey of the species Cercopithecus mitis, native to central and eastern Africa.


Cape porcupine

A porcupine of species Hystrix africaeaustralis, native to subsaharan Africa.


dassie rat

Petromus typicus
Petromus typicus#Translingual

A species of rat found in southwestern Africa, Petromus typicus.


Winnie-the-Pooh

Alternative form of Winnie the Pooh (the original A. A. Milne form contains hyphens).


marsh rice rat

Oryzomys palustris, a semiaquatic North American rodent in the family Cricetidae, mostly found in wetland habitats.


Florida panther

Florida panther (plural Florida panthers)

New York City, Philadelphia, (traditional) Eastern New England, Irish English

Puma concolor cougar, an endangered cougar that lives in forests and swamps of southern Florida in the United States.


bassarisk

(zoology) Any member of the genus Bassariscus.


takhi

Przewalski's horse
Przewalski's horse#English


bamboo rat

Any of the four species of burrowing rodents in the spalacid tribe Rhizomyini, found in China and southeast Asia

ပွေး

rodent in the genera Rhizomys or Cannomys


water deer

Hydropotes inermis, a species of small deer native to China and Korea that is superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer.


draghound

"Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds—no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent."

1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:

"I've told them, I'm ready to be the first chairman of the Badsworth draghounds," Mr Beechey said. "I'm all for riding round the countryside, and it's just as enjoyable if you're chasing artificial scent."

2003 December 27, Martin Wainwright, “This year, the day belonged to the hounds”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2015-11-15:

There are also another 26 packs of draghounds and bloodhounds which exist purely to hunt a runner or trail.

2015 October 31, Tim Bonner, “Ten years on, and we're still here”, in Western Daily Press, UK, retrieved 2015-11-15:

A hunting dog especially trained to be effective in drag hunts, having the highly developed sense of smell and the stamina to follow an artificially scented trail at high speed over considerable distance.


African lynx

Caracal caracal
Caracal caracal#Translingual

A medium-sized wild cat with lynx-like black ear-tufts and found in Africa as well as southwest and central Asia and western India, the caracal (Caracal caracal).


stud farm

An establishment for selective breeding of livestock, especially horses.


ratsicle

The negative aspects of pre-killed rodents generally focus on two things: the initial killing of the rodent, and the prospect of opening the freezer to find a "ratsicle" next to your frozen pizza.

I'd just fed Rocky the Boa his weekly ratsicle the day before — as evidenced by the golf ball-sized lump in his midsection […]

2007, Brenda Scott Royce, Monkey Star, New American Library, →ISBN, page 87:

The aviary was high enough for him to hop and flap up onto his perches, and there was water for him to take his baths, along with the remnants of a ratsicle, yesterday's supper.

2013, Barbara Chepaitis, Saving Eagle Mitch: One Good Deed in a Wicked World, Excelsior Editions, →ISBN, page 127:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen rat.


hyainailourid

Hyaenodontid pterygoids are generally less developed ventrally and posteriorly than hyainailourid pterygoids (Fig 5, Feature 12; Table 1 ).

(zoology) Any extinct mammal of the family Hyainailouridae


porcicide

(very rare) The killing of a pig or pigs.


proviverrine

The nasal aperture forms a more opened angle in the proviverrine Cynohyaenodon cayluxi and a slightly sharper angle in P.

Any of the hyaenodontid subfamily †Proviverrinae of extinct mammals.


teratodontine

The only other hyaenodonts known at that time were the teratodontine Dissopsalis, which was present in Africa and Asia [134 ] and the koholiine Metapterodon, which was possibly present in Asia [135 ].

Any hyaenodont of the subfamily Teratodontinae


anchitheriine

La Retama preserves an abundant fossil fauna that includes gastropods and vertebrates such as chelonians, crocodiles, lagomorphs, rodents, several carnivorans, anchitheriine equids, rhinoceroses, gomphoteriid elephants, caenotheriids, suids, cervids and palaeomerycids.

2015 December 3, “Systematics and Evolution of the Miocene Three-Horned Palaeomerycid Ruminants (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the Anchitheriinae, an extinct subfamily of equids.


marine mammal

The influence of the temperature of the Gulf-stream upon animal life in the ocean is very curious. The whale so sedulously shuns its warm waters, as almost to indicate their track by its absence ; while yet abundantly found on each side of it. The physical reasons are doubtless the same which prevent this great marine mammal from ever crossing the equator from one hemisphere to the other — a fact now well ascertained.

1857 April, Philippe de Kerhallet, “The Atlantic Ocean”, in Edinburgh Review, volume CV, number CCXIV, page 371:

A mammal which lives partly or wholly in the ocean, or at least is heavily dependent on the ocean for its lifestyle; such as cetaceans, sirenians, seals, the sea otter or the polar bear.


borgi

As a gesture of confidence, or perhaps resignation, she has provided Lissa and me early Christmas presents—in the form of a six-week-old Corgi (Lissa’s) and six-week-old half brother Borgi (corgi/Border Collie).

BORGI PUPPIES, (Border Collie X Corgi), M/F, shots, $250-$350.

2004 December 23, The Modesto Bee, page G -4:

Her home was filled with her own herd which she loved: horses, Border Collies, Corgis, Borgis, and cats.

2015 October 19, “Kellie Diane Stanley-Bennett: February 5, 1976- September 12, 2015”, in Merced Sun-Star, volume 127, number 191, page 6A:

A crossbreed dog resulting from the breeding of a border collie and a corgi.


nailtail wallaby

nailtail wallaby (plural nailtail wallabies)

Any of the genus Onychogalea of Australian macropods, distinguished by a horny spur at the end of the tail.


hazel dormouse

A volunteer checks a rare hazel dormouse as 20 breeding pairs were released into an undisclosed woodland location near Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, UK.

This project involves construction of a railway crossing for wild hazel dormice on the Furness line (Lancashire), in a bid to save the endangered species from extinction, and it will be the first of its kind on the railway.

2022 February 23, Daisy Chapman-Chamberlain, “Ground-breaking rail innovation goes international”, in RAIL, number 951, page 35:

A small nocturnal dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, with golden-brown fur and large black eyes.


royal antelope

The third member of the section is the royal antelope (N. pygmæus) of the Guinea coast, which is the smallest of all the Ruminants, standing only 12 inches at the shoulder.

1894, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History: Mammals:

Any of species Neotragus pygmaeus of antelopes of west Africa, that are the smallest known.


sapiutan

Bubalus depressicornis, a small Indonesian water buffalo.


Zinj

(informal, paleoanthropology, dated) The original specimen of Paranthropus boisei, then known as Zinjanthropus.


yaboo

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَابُو (yābū).

bor+

(archaic) An Afghan pony used as a beast of burden.


sika deer

en-noun

sika deer (plural sika deer or sika deers)

Cervus nippon
Cervus nippon#Translingual

Alternative form of sika (“deer (Cervus nippon)”)


Egyptian mongoose

Egyptian mongoose (plural Egyptian mongooses)

Herpestes ichneumon
Herpestes ichneumon#Translingual

Herpestes ichneumon, a small, slender carnivore, resistant to the venom of certain snakes.


oogruk

From Inuktitut ᐅᒡᔪᒃ (ocyok, “bearded seal”).

As soon as the seals are born the first part of April, the ice stops forming around the island. It does not freeze anymore. When that happened we went out with our kayaks, mostly for oogruks, or big bearded seals.

1987, Paul Tiulana, A place for winter: Paul Tiulana's story, page 13:


bearded seal

Erignathus barbatus, an earless seal with conspicuous whiskers, found in and around the Arctic Ocean.


dorcas gazelle

From Latin dorcas from Ancient Greek δορκάς (dorkás) + gazelle.

A gazelle native to northern Africa and western Asia, Gazella dorcas


Speke's gazelle

Speke's gazelle (plural Speke's gazelles)

Named after English explorer John Hanning Speke.

A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa (Gazella spekei).


Soemmerring's gazelle

Soemmerring's gazelle (plural Soemmerring's gazelles)

Named after German scientist Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring.

A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa, Nanger soemmerringi, formerly Gazella soemmerringi.

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
en:Soemmerring's gazelle


moose deer

moose deer (plural moose deers or moose deer)

moose deers (plural)
moose deer (plural)


tufted capuchin

tufted capuchin (plural tufted capuchins)

A capuchin monkey of species Sapajus apella, of parts of northern South America and Trinidad.


European polecat

European polecat (plural European polecats)

Mustela putorius
Mustela putorius#Translingual

Mustela putorius, related to mink and weasels, native to Europe and parts of Asia, and from which certain of the animals called ferrets have been domesticated.


washugyu

Blend of Washington + wagyu, after the US state.

The austere appearance of Japanese Premium Beef’s first retail outlet belies the richness of what it purveys: beef called washugyu, a Black Angus/wagyu cross raised in Oregon.

2009 June 10, Florence Fabricant, “An Oregon Trail for Beef”, in New York Times:

Wagyu cattle crossbred with Black Angus to make them hardier.


roundleaf bat

Any of the bats of the genus Hipposideros.


bawty

Bourdna wi' bawty lest he bite ye.

Well, he's grown into such a nice bawty.

Some drunken idiot ran over my son's bawty.

He's like the wife's bawty—kens naething about it.

2008, Alexander Hislop, The proverbs of Scotland:


whippomorph

(zoology) Any member of the suborder Whippomorpha, including hippopotamuses and cetaceans.


Martelli's wildcat

Martelli's wildcat (plural Martelli's wildcats)

First described by the naturalist Ugolino Martelli in 1906.

Felis lunensis, an extinct felid, the ancestor of the wildcat.


snow monkey

Macaca fuscata
Macaca fuscata#Translingual


koolakamba

Based on indigenous words in the region of the Ovengi River of West Central Africa. Allegedly, kooloo mimics the creature's unique vocalization, and kamba is a Commi word meaning speak.

(obsolete) A purported hybrid species of chimpanzee and gorilla.


purrsuasive

en-adj

purrsuasive (comparative more purrsuasive, superlative most purrsuasive)

more purrsuasive (comparative)
most purrsuasive (superlative)

Cats have served as expert sales-creatures of everything from pet food to whiskey and tobacco. Be it in print or on television, they are undeniably purrsuasive.

(humorous, said of a cat) Alternative form of persuasive


Blenheim

Battle of Blenheim
Höchstädt an der Donau

The house was named to commemorate the Allied victory at the 1704 Battle of Blindheim (near Höchstädt an der Donau in Bavaria). Other places are named after the house, often with an association to the Duchy of Marlborough.

West Oxfordshire
West Oxfordshire#English

A civil parish (without a council) west of Woodstock, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire.

A small inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Schoharie County
Schoharie County#English

A small town in Schoharie County, New York.

A small town in Marlboro County, South Carolina.

Albemarle County
Albemarle County#English

An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.


condylarth

From the (disused) order name Condylarthra, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”) + ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”).

uder

In the 10 million years after the mass extinction, the first perissodactyls emerged from the confused wastebasket of animals called condylarths.

2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

Any of a group of extinct placental mammals, early ungulates, known from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs.


nothrotheriid

Any extinct ground sloth of the family †Nothrotheriidae.


Chow Chow

First attested in 1886, but of uncertain origin (present Chinese terms for the breed do not resemble it). Possibly related to the old Chinese custom of eating dogs (cf. chow and chow-chow).


klipdachs

Borrowed from German Klippdachs, from Dutch klipdas.

But if he succeeds in seizing the klipdachs before it has time to leap away, he carries it to a rocky ledge, and slowly tears it to pieces.

1863, Georg Hartwig, The Tropical World: a Popular Scientific Account of the Natural History of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms in the Equatorial Regions, page 395:

He knew that in time the poor silly little klipdachs would grow careless, and, anxious for a game at play, would get too far from their homes to skip back before he could be down upon them.

1881, William Henry Giles Kingston, In the Wilds of Africa: A Tale for Boys, page 306:

The klipdachs (hierax) and the klipspringer (Oreotragus saltatrix) are the prevalent population, now however threatened with extinction.

1971, Karl Mauch, F. O. Bernhard, Karl Mauch: African Explorer, page 153:


rock rabbit

Most people are surprised when they read that the rock rabbit's nearest relative (apart from the similar tree dassie) is the elephant.

1972, James Clarke, John Pitts, Focus on fauna, page 31:

The Natal red rock rabbit is the largest of the rock rabbits in southern Africa.

1997, M. G. L. Mills, The complete book of Southern African mammals, page 117:

It was designated the cave of the three-toed rock rabbit, and it was a favourite place for the little creatures to seek refuge.

2009, Stephan Taylor, Finkelstein's Folder: Echoes from Judea, →ISBN, page 69:


kokama

I have heard that the Matabili have no name for this animal; but the Bechuana term is "Kokama."

1876, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 289:

The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring.

1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Mammals, page 326:

The Gemsbok (Oryx capensis) is sometimes called the kokama, is nearly four feet in height, and has South Africa as its habitat.


Steller's sea cow

en-noun

Steller's sea cow (plural Steller's sea cows)

†Hydrodamalis gigas, an extinct herbivorous marine mammal related to the dugong.


vlei rat

Any of various groove-toothed rats of the genus Otomys, found in sub-Saharan Africa.