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  2. Terrestrial animal - Wikipedia

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    The cane toad is a terrestrial animal.. Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g. most amphibians).

  3. Giraffe - Wikipedia

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    Giraffa. Brisson, 1762. Species. See taxonomy. Distribution of the giraffe. The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa. It is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant on Earth. Traditionally, giraffes have been thought of as one species, Giraffa camelopardalis, with nine subspecies.

  4. List of bioluminescent organisms - Wikipedia

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    1 Terrestrial animals. 2 Marine animals. Toggle Marine animals subsection. 2.1 Fish. 2.2 Invertebrates. 3 Freshwater animals. 4 Fungi. 5 Bacteria. 6 Other ...

  5. Terrestrial ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    Terrestrial ecosystems are ecosystems that are found on land. Examples include tundra, taiga, temperate deciduous forest, tropical rain forest, grassland, deserts. [1] Terrestrial ecosystems differ from aquatic ecosystems by the predominant presence of soil rather than water at the surface and by the extension of plants above this soil/water ...

  6. Sloth - Wikipedia

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    Sloth. Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of movement, tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central ...

  7. Wildlife of Antarctica - Wikipedia

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    Wildlife of Antarctica. Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) are the only animals to breed on mainland Antarctica during the winter. The wildlife of Antarctica are extremophiles, having adapted to the dryness, low temperatures, and high exposure common in Antarctica. The extreme weather of the interior contrasts to the relatively mild ...

  8. Tetrapod - Wikipedia

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    Diadectes (a terrestrial diadectomorph, Early Permian) In the Permian period, amniotes became particularly well-established, and two important clades filled in most terrestrial niches: the sauropsids and the synapsids. The latter were the most important and successful Permian land animals, establishing complex terrestrial ecosystems of ...

  9. Mongoose - Wikipedia

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    Mongoose. A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae. This family has two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae. The Herpestinae comprises 23 living species that are native to southern Europe, Africa and Asia, whereas the Mungotinae comprises 11 species native to Africa. [2]