Cheetah, the Glossary
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat and the fastest land animal.[1]
Table of Contents
406 relations: Abel Chapman, AC Cobra, Academic Press, Acinonyx, Acinonyx pardinensis, Acoustics, Adductor muscles of the hip, Adornment, Adrar des Ifoghas, Africa, Akbar, Albinism, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Aminopeptidase, Ancient Egypt, Andrew Smith (zoologist), Andrews McMeel Publishing, Anthropomorphism, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Arabian Peninsula, Aral Sea, Asiatic cheetah, Asphyxia, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Bacchus and Ariadne, Bafq, Basra, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Bering Strait, Big cat, Bill Thomas Cheetah, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biology Letters, Biology of Reproduction, Bite force quotient, Blackbuck, Bloemfontein, Blood, Bloomsbury Group, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bombay Natural History Society, Born Free, Brill Publishers, British Raj, Byzantine Empire, Calabrian (stage), Cambridge University Press, Canidae, Canine tooth, Cannibalism, ... Expand index (356 more) »
- Acinonyx
- Big cats
- Mammals described in 1775
Abel Chapman
Abel Chapman (1851–1929) was an English, Sunderland-born hunter-naturalist.
AC Cobra
The AC Cobra, sold in the United States as the Shelby Cobra and AC Shelby Cobra, is a sports car manufactured by British company AC Cars, with a Ford V8 engine.
Academic Press
Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941.
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Acinonyx
Acinonyx is a genus within the Felidae family.
Acinonyx pardinensis
Acinonyx pardinensis, sometimes called the Giant cheetah, is an extinct felid species belonging to the genus Acinonyx, closely related to the cheetah, native to Eurasia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. Cheetah and Acinonyx pardinensis are Acinonyx.
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Acoustics
Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.
Adductor muscles of the hip
The adductor muscles of the hip are a group of muscles in the medial compartment of the thigh mostly used for bringing the thighs together (called adduction).
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Adornment
An adornment is generally an accessory or ornament worn to enhance the beauty or status of the wearer.
Adrar des Ifoghas
The Adrar des Ifoghas (also Adrar des Iforas; Tamasheq: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⴼⵓⵖⴰⵙ in Tifinagh; Adrar n Ifoghas; أدرار إيفوغاس Ifoghas' Mountains) is a massif located in the Kidal Region of Mali, reaching into Algeria.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.
Albinism
Albinism is the congenital absence of melanin in an animal or plant resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and skin and reddish pink or blue eyes.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.
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Aminopeptidase
Aminopeptidases are enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of amino acids from the amino terminus (N-terminus) of proteins or peptides (exopeptidases).
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
Andrew Smith (zoologist)
Sir Andrew Smith (3 December 1797 – 11 August 1872) was a British surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist.
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (formerly Andrews, McMeel and Parker (1975–1986) and Andrews and McMeel (1986–1997)) is a company that publishes books, calendars, and related toys.
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Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy or AAE is a scholarly journal for articles relating to the ancient Arabian Peninsula region.
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Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
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Aral Sea
The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake (that is, without an outlet) lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s.
Asiatic cheetah
The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) is a critically endangered cheetah subspecies currently only surviving in Iran. Cheetah and Asiatic cheetah are Acinonyx.
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Asphyxia
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing.
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), originally the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1924 and dedicated to the advancement of zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation.
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Bacchus and Ariadne
Bacchus and Ariadne (1522–1523) is an oil painting by Titian.
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Bafq
Bafq (بافق) is a city in the Central District of Bafq County, Yazd province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
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Basra
Basra (al-Baṣrah) is a city in southern Iraq.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering quantitative, empirical, and theoretical studies in the field of analysis of animal behavior at the levels of the individual, population, and community.
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Bering Strait
The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
Big cat
The term "big cat" is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus Panthera, namely the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, as well as the non-pantherine cheetah and cougar. Cheetah and Big cat are big cats.
Bill Thomas Cheetah
The Bill Thomas Cheetah was an American sports car designed and engineered entirely with American components, and built from 1963 to 1966 by Chevrolet performance tuner Bill Thomas.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
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Biology Letters
Biology Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society, established in 2005.
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Biology of Reproduction
Biology of Reproduction is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official journal of the Society for the Study of Reproduction.
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Bite force quotient
Bite force quotient (BFQ) is a numerical value commonly used to represent the bite force of an animal, while also taking factors like the animal's size into account.
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Blackbuck
The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the Indian antelope, is a medium-sized antelope native to India and Nepal.
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein, also known as Bloem, is the capital and the largest city of the Free State province in South Africa.
Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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Bombay Natural History Society
The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), founded on 15 September 1883, is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research.
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Born Free
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.
Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Calabrian (stage)
Calabrian is a subdivision of the Pleistocene Epoch of the geologic time scale, defined as 1.8 Ma—774,000 years ago ± 5,000 years, a period of ~. The end of the stage is defined by the last magnetic pole reversal (781 ± 5 Ka) and plunge into an ice age and global drying possibly colder and drier than the late Miocene (Messinian) through early Pliocene (Zanclean) cold period.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Canidae
Canidae (from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade.
Canine tooth
In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dogteeth, eye teeth, vampire teeth, or vampire fangs, are the relatively long, pointed teeth.
Cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.
Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
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Caracal
The caracal (Caracal caracal) is a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and arid areas of Pakistan and northwestern India. Cheetah and caracal are mammals of Africa, mammals of Asia and taxa named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber.
Carrion
Carrion, also known as a carcass, is the decaying flesh of dead animals.
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Hall Shelby (January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012) was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur.
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Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.
Cat
The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.
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Cat coat genetics
Cat coat genetics determine the coloration, pattern, length, and texture of feline fur.
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Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (कोशिकीय एवं आण्विक जीवविज्ञान केंद्र., IAST: Kośikīya evam āṇavik jīvavijñāna kendra) or CCMB is an Indian fundamental life science research establishment located in Hyderabad that operates under the aegis of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Chauvet Cave
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.
Cheetah (character)
The Cheetah is a supervillain appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a major adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman.
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Cheetah Conservation Fund
The Cheetah Conservation Fund is a research and lobby institution in Namibia concerned with the study and sustenance of the country's cheetah population, the largest and healthiest in the world.
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Cheetah reintroduction in India
Cheetah reintroduction in India is a programme initiated by Government of India to re-introduce cheetahs to India after they became locally extinct in 1952.
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Cheetos
Cheetos (formerly styled as Chee-tos until 1998) is a crunchy corn-cheese puff snack brand made by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo.
Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Chester Cheetah
Chester Cheetah is a fictional character and the official mascot for Frito-Lay's Cheetos brand snacks as well as Chester's Snacks which consists of flavored fries, popcorn and puffcorn.
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Chevrolet
Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy, is an American automobile division of the manufacturer General Motors (GM).
Chibanian
The Chibanian, more widely known as Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.
Chinkara
The chinkara (Gazella bennettii), also known as the Indian gazelle, is a gazelle species native to India, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Chromosome
A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is the sixth oldest zoo in the United States, founded in 1873 and officially opening in 1875.
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CITES
CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.
Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
Clavicle
The clavicle, collarbone, or keybone is a slender, S-shaped long bone approximately 6 inches (15 cm) long that serves as a strut between the shoulder blade and the sternum (breastbone).
Clinton Foundation
The Clinton Foundation (founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code.
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Cloning
Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).
Common duiker
The common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia), also known as the gray duiker or bush duiker, is a small antelope and the only member of the genus Sylvicapra.
Computerworld
Computerworld (abbreviated as CW) is an ongoing decades-old professional publication which in 2014 "went digital." Its audience is information technology (IT) and business technology professionals, and is available via a publication website and as a digital magazine.
Conservation Biology (journal)
Conservation Biology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, published by Wiley-Blackwell and established in May 1987.
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Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) or the Bonn Convention, is an international agreement that aims to conserve migratory species throughout their ranges.
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Cougar
The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas. Cheetah and cougar are big cats.
Coursing
Coursing by humans is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs—chiefly greyhounds and other sighthounds—catching their prey by speed, running by sight, but not by scent.
Current Biology
Current Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all areas of biology, especially molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
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Cursorial
A cursorial organism is one that is adapted specifically to run.
Cynegetica (Nemesianus)
The Cynegetica is a didactic Latin poem about hunting by Marcus Aurelius Nemesianus.
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Dama gazelle
The dama gazelle (Nanger dama), also known as the addra gazelle or mhorr gazelle, is a species of gazelle.
Dawn
Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise.
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De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre
The De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre, also known as Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre is a captive breeding facility for South African cheetahs and other animals that is situated in the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountain range (near Brits and the Hartbeespoort Dam) in the North West Province of South Africa.
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Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald is an Indian English language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka.
Deer
A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).
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Deir el-Bahari
Deir el-Bahari or Dayr al-Bahri (the Monastery of the North) is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt.
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Dentition
Dentition pertains to the development of teeth and their arrangement in the mouth.
Desert hare
The desert hare (Lepus tibetanus) is a species of hare found in Central Asia, Northwest China, and the western Indian subcontinent.
Dewclaw
A dewclaw is a digit – vestigial in some animals – on the foot of many mammals, birds, and reptiles (including some extinct orders, like certain theropods).
Dionysus
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Διόνυσος) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.
Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.
Dominance (genetics)
In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome.
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Dominance hierarchy
In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.
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Dorcas gazelle
The dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas), also known as the ariel gazelle, is a small and common gazelle.
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Duma (2005 film)
Duma is a 2005 American family drama adventure film about a young South African boy's friendship with an orphaned cheetah, based on How It Was with Dooms by Carol Cawthra Hopcraft and Xan Hopcraft.
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Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss.
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Dusk
Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before nightfall.
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East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Edmund Heller
Edmund Heller (May 21, 1875 – July 18, 1939) was an American zoologist.
Edward Griffith (zoologist)
Edward Griffith (1790–1858) was a British naturalist and solicitor.
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Egressive sound
In human speech, egressive sounds are sounds in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Endangered Species Act of 1973
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.
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Epizootic
In epizoology, an epizootic (or epizoötic, from Greek: epi- "upon" + zoon "animal") is a disease event in a nonhuman animal population analogous to an epidemic in humans.
Estrous cycle
The estrous cycle (originally) is a set of recurring physiological changes induced by reproductive hormones in females of mammalian subclass Theria.
Ethology (journal)
Ethology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by John Wiley & Sons.
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Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park is a national park in northwestern Namibia and one of the largest national parks in Africa.
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Evolution (journal)
Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, is a monthly scientific journal that publishes significant new results of empirical or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanics, or concepts of evolutionary phenomena and events.
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Fastest animals
This is a list of the fastest animals in the world, by types of animal.
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Felidae
Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.
Felinae
Felinae is a subfamily of the Felidae and comprises the small cats having a bony hyoid, because of which they are able to purr but not roar.
Feline coronavirus
Feline coronavirus (FCoV) is a positive-stranded RNA virus that infects cats worldwide.
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Feline infectious peritonitis
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a common and aberrant immune response in cats to infection with feline coronavirus (FCoV).
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Feline viral rhinotracheitis
Feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR) is an upper respiratory or pulmonary infection of cats caused by Felid alphaherpesvirus 1 (FeHV-1), of the family Herpesviridae.
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Felis
Felis is a genus of small and medium-sized cat species native to most of Africa and south of 60° latitude in Europe and Asia to Indochina.
Femur
The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.
Fernand Khnopff
Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (12 September 1858 – 12 November 1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter.
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Fibula
The fibula (fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below.
First Dynasty of Egypt
The First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (Dynasty I) covers the first series of Egyptian kings to rule over a unified Egypt.
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The attacker on the left sweeps the right foot of the opponent The foot sweep (also footsweep) is a move in many different styles of martial arts.
Forest Stewardship Council
The Forest Stewardship Council GmbH (FSC) is an international non-profit, multistakeholder organization established in 1993 that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification.
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Frederick Warne & Co.
Frederick Warne & Co. is a British publisher founded in 1865.
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Frederick Zeuner
Frederick Everard Zeuner (8 March 1905 – 5 November 1963) was a German palaeontologist and geological archaeologist who specialized on the Pleistocene epoch.
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Free State (province)
The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.
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Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay, Inc. is an American subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets, and sells corn chips, potato chips, and other snack foods.
Gastroenteritis
Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea, is an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract including the stomach and intestine.
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Generation time
In population biology and demography, generation time is the average time between two consecutive generations in the lineages of a population.
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Genetic divergence
Genetic divergence is the process in which two or more populations of an ancestral species accumulate independent genetic changes (mutations) through time, often leading to reproductive isolation and continued mutation even after the populations have become reproductively isolated for some period of time, as there is not any genetic exchange anymore.
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Genetic variability
Genetic variability is either the presence of, or the generation of, genetic differences.
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Genetic variation
Genetic variation is the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations among the same species.
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Genome Biology
Genome Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering research in genomics.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.
George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot
George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (4 March 1719 – 11 May 1777) was twice the British President of the British East India Company.
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George Stubbs
George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses.
Georges Louis Duvernoy
Georges Louis Duvernoy (6 August 1777, Montbéliard, Doubs – 1 March 1855) was a French zoologist.
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Gestation
Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).
Glomerulosclerosis
Glomerulosclerosis is the hardening of the glomeruli in the kidney.
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Goitered gazelle
The goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) or black-tailed gazelle is a gazelle native to Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of Iraq and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and in northwestern China and Mongolia.
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GPS animal tracking
GPS animal tracking is a process whereby biologists, scientific researchers, or conservation agencies can remotely observe relatively fine-scale movement or migratory patterns in a free-ranging wild animal using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and optional environmental sensors or automated data-retrieval technologies such as Argos satellite uplink, mobile data telephony or GPRS and a range of analytical software tools.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
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Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1958 by John J. Bilitz.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Greyhound
The English Greyhound, or simply the Greyhound, is a breed of dog, a sighthound which has been bred for coursing, greyhound racing and hunting.
Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.
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Hamstring
In human anatomy, a hamstring is any one of the three posterior thigh muscles between the hip and the knee (from medial to lateral: semimembranosus, semitendinosus and biceps femoris).
Harare
Harare, formerly known as Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut (BC) was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II and the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling first as regent, then as queen regnant from until (Low Chronology).
Hepatic veno-occlusive disease
Hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD) or veno-occlusive disease with immunodeficiency is a potentially life-threatening condition in which some of the small veins in the liver are obstructed.
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Hereditary carrier
A hereditary carrier (genetic carrier or just carrier), is a person or other organism that has inherited a recessive allele for a genetic trait or mutation but usually does not display that trait or show symptoms of the disease.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).
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Home range
A home range is the area in which an animal lives and moves on a periodic basis.
Homologation (motorsport)
In motorsport, homologation is a testing and certification process for vehicles, circuits, and related equipment for conformance to technical standards, usually known as type approval in English-language jurisdictions.
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Honey badger
The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel, is a mammal widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Cheetah and honey badger are mammals of Africa and taxa named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.
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How It Was with Dooms
How It Was with Dooms is a children's book dictated to Carol Cawthra Hopcraft by her young son Xan Hopcraft.
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Humerus
The humerus (humeri) is a long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow.
Hundsheim
Hundsheim is a town in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria, in northeast Austria.
Hussein, An Entertainment
Hussein, an Entertainment is an early novel by Patrick O'Brian, published in 1938 under his birth name, Patrick Russ.
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Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
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Hyderabad
Hyderabad (ISO) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana.
Hyena
Hyenas or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek ὕαινα) are feliform carnivoran mammals belonging to the family Hyaenidae. Cheetah and Hyena are mammals of Africa and mammals of Asia.
Hypertensive kidney disease
Hypertensive kidney disease is a medical condition referring to damage to the kidney due to chronic high blood pressure.
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Hypothermia
Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans.
Impala
The impala or rooibok (Aepyceros melampus) is a medium-sized antelope found in eastern and southern Africa.
Induced ovulation (animals)
Induced ovulation occurs in some animal species that do not ovulate cyclically or spontaneously.
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Ingressive sound
In phonetics, ingressive sounds are sounds by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution (انقلاب ایران), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (label), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions.
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Ischium
The ischium (ischia) forms the lower and back region of the hip bone (os coxae).
IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.
Jaguarundi
The jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi; or) is a wild cat native to the Americas.
Jahangir
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 till his death in 1627.
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (17 January 1739 in Weißensee, Thuringia – 10 December 1810 in Erlangen), often styled J.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.
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Johann Georg Wagler
Johann Georg Wagler (28 March 1800 – 23 August 1832) was a German herpetologist and ornithologist.
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.
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Joshua Brookes
Joshua Brookes (24 November 1761 – 10 January 1833) was a British anatomist and naturalist.
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Journal of Anatomy
The Journal of Anatomy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Anatomical Society.
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Journal of Arid Environments
The Journal of Arid Environments is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.
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Journal of Heredity
The Journal of Heredity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal concerned with heredity in a biological sense, covering all aspects of genetics.
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Journal of Mammalogy
The Journal of Mammalogy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Mammalogists.
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Journal of Natural History
The Journal of Natural History is a scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis focusing on entomology and zoology.
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Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (also JBNHS) is a natural history journal published several times a year by the Bombay Natural History Society.
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Journal of Virology
The Journal of Virology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research concerning all aspects of virology.
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Journal of Wildlife Management
The Journal of Wildlife Management is a peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the ecology of non-domesticated animal species.
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Journal of Zoology
The Journal of Zoology is a scientific journal concerning zoology, the study of animals.
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Joy Adamson
Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author.
Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
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Khar Turan National Park
Khar Turan National Park and Touran Wildlife Refuge are adjoining protected areas in Iran.
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Kleptoparasitism
Kleptoparasitism (originally spelt clepto-parasitism, meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another.
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Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park is a South African National Park and one of the largest game reserves in Africa.
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Kuno National Park
Kuno National Park is a national park and Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Land of Punt
The Land of Punt (Egyptian: pwnt; alternate Egyptological readings Pwene(t)) was an ancient kingdom known from Ancient Egyptian trade records.
Larynx
The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck involved in breathing, producing sound and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.
Late Pleistocene extinctions
The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses over) animal species (the Pleistocene megafauna), which resulted in a collapse in faunal density and diversity across the globe.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera. Cheetah and leopard are big cats.
Leopold Fitzinger
Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist.
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Leukoencephalopathy
Leukoencephalopathy (leukodystrophy-like diseases) is a term that describes all of the brain white matter diseases, whether their molecular cause is known or unknown.
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Ligament
A ligament is the fibrous connective tissue that connects bones to other bones.
Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India. Cheetah and lion are big cats.
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List of largest cats
This is a list of species in the Felidae family, which aims to evaluate their size, ordered by maximum reported weight and size of wild individuals on record.
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Live Science
Live Science is a science news website.
Local extinction
Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.
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Lunar phase
A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth).
Lynne Lipton
Lynne Lipton is an American film, stage, television and voice actress.
Lynx
A lynx (lynx or lynxes) is any of the four extant species (the Canada lynx, Iberian lynx, Eurasian lynx and the bobcat) within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.
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Maasai Mara
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
Maasai people
The Maasai (Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region.
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.0 (code named Cheetah) is the first major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system.
Mafdet
Mafdet (also Mefdet, Maftet) was a goddess in the ancient Egyptian religion.
Major histocompatibility complex
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a large locus on vertebrate DNA containing a set of closely linked polymorphic genes that code for cell surface proteins essential for the adaptive immune system.
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Mammalian Species
Mammalian Species is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society of Mammalogists.
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Manicaland Province
Manicaland is a province in eastern Zimbabwe.
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Marshall Cavendish
Marshall Cavendish is a subsidiary company of Times Publishing Group, the printing and publishing subsidiary of Singapore-based conglomerate Fraser and Neave (which in turn currently owned by ThaiBev, a Thai beverage company), and at present is a publisher of books, business directories and magazines.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.
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Melanism
Melanism is the congenital excess of melanin in an organism resulting in dark pigment.
Metre per second squared
The metre per second squared is the unit of acceleration in the International System of Units (SI).
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Million years ago
Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
Ming Veritable Records
The Ming Veritable Records or Ming Shilu, contains the imperial annals of the emperors of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Miracinonyx
Miracinonyx (colloquially known as the "American cheetah") is an extinct genus of felids belonging to the subfamily Felinae that was endemic to North America from the Pleistocene epoch (about 2.5 million to 16,000 years ago) and morphologically similar to the modern cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), although its apparent similar ecological niches have been considered questionable due to anatomical morphologies of the former that would have limited the ability to act as a specialized pursuit predator.
Mohawk hairstyle
The mohawk (also referred to as a mohican) is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the center.
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Molecular ecology
Molecular ecology is a field of evolutionary biology that is concerned with applying molecular population genetics, molecular phylogenetics, and more recently genomics to traditional ecological questions (e.g., species diagnosis, conservation and assessment of biodiversity, species-area relationships, and many questions in behavioral ecology).
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Mongabay
Mongabay (mongabay.com) is an American conservation news web portal that reports on environmental science, energy, and green design, and features extensive information on tropical rainforests, including pictures and deforestation statistics for countries of the world.
Mountain gorilla
The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the two subspecies of the eastern gorilla.
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Mughal dynasty
The Mughal dynasty (دودمان مغل) was a dynasty which comprised the members of the imperial House of Babur (خاندانِ آلِ بابُر), also known as the Gurkanis (گورکانیان), who ruled the Mughal Empire from to 1857.
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Mutation
In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA.
Myelopathy
Myelopathy describes any neurologic deficit related to the spinal cord.
Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the current Prime Minister of India since 26 May 2014.
Nasal cavity
The nasal cavity is a large, air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Museum of Natural History, France
The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a grand établissement of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities.
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Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Nature Conservation
Nature Conservation is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering Conservation Biology.
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Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary
Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary, covering about, is the largest wildlife sanctuary of Madhya Pradesh state in India.
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NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication.
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Neuron
A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an excitable cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across a neural network in the nervous system.
New Kingdom of Egypt
The New Kingdom, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, was the ancient Egyptian state between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC.
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Nomenclature codes
Nomenclature codes or codes of nomenclature are the various rulebooks that govern the naming of living organisms.
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Norman Myers
Norman Myers (24 August 1934 – 20 October 2019) was a British environmentalist specialising in biodiversity and also noted for his work on environmental refugees.
Northeast African cheetah
The Northeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii) is a cheetah subspecies occurring in Northeast Africa. Cheetah and Northeast African cheetah are Acinonyx.
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Northwest African cheetah
The Northwest African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki), also known as the Saharan cheetah, is a cheetah subspecies native to the Sahara and the Sahel. Cheetah and Northwest African cheetah are Acinonyx.
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Nyala
The lowland nyala or simply nyala (Tragelaphus angasii) is a spiral-horned artiodactyl antelope native to Southern Africa.
Oedipus
Oedipus (Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.
Oil painting
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.
Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a vast inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari.
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Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas.
Olfactic communication
Olfactic communication is a channel of nonverbal communication referring to the various ways people and animals communicate and engage in social interaction through their sense of smell.
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Otjiwarongo
Otjiwarongo (beautiful place) is a city of 49,000 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pallas's cat
The Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul), also known as the manul, is a small wild cat with long and dense light grey fur, and rounded ears set low on the sides of the head.
Panthera
Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae.
Panthera Corporation
Panthera Corporation, or Panthera, is a charitable organization devoted to preserving wild cats and their ecosystems around the globe.
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Parallel evolution
Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response to similar evolutionary pressure.
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Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.
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Pelvis
The pelvis (pelves or pelvises) is the lower part of the trunk, between the abdomen and the thighs (sometimes also called pelvic region), together with its embedded skeleton (sometimes also called bony pelvis or pelvic skeleton).
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House.
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Phalanx bone
The phalanges (phalanx) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates.
Pharaoh
Pharaoh (Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ|Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: Parʿō) is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE.
Philip Sclater
Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an English lawyer and zoologist.
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Philippolis
Philippolis is a town in the Free State province of South Africa.
Phinda Private Game Reserve
Phinda Private Game Reserve, formerly known as Phinda Resource Reserve, is a private game reserve situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, between the Mkuze Game Reserve and the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park.
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Phylogeography
Phylogeography is the study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the past to present geographic distributions of genealogical lineages.
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Pierre Boitard
Pierre Boitard (27 April 1787 Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire – 25 August 1859) was a French botanist and geologist.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Ploidy
Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.
Poaching
Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
Polymorphism (biology)
In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.
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Population bottleneck
A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts; or human activities such as genocide, speciocide, widespread violence or intentional culling.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Prionailurus
Prionailurus is a genus of spotted, small wild cats native to Asia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Pronghorn
The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Cheetah and pronghorn are extant Pleistocene first appearances.
Psoas major muscle
The psoas major (or; from muscles of the loins) is a long fusiform muscle located in the lateral lumbar region between the vertebral column and the brim of the lesser pelvis.
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Puma (genus)
Puma is a genus in the family Felidae whose only extant species is the cougar (also known as the puma, mountain lion, and panther, among other names), and may also include several poorly known Old World fossil representatives (for example, Puma pardoides, or Owen's panther, a large, cougar-like cat of Eurasia's Pliocene).
Pupil
The pupil is a hole located in the center of the iris of the eye that allows light to strike the retina.
Pursuit predation
Pursuit predation is a form of predation in which predators actively give chase to their prey, either solitarily or as a group.
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Quadriceps
The quadriceps femoris muscle (also called the quadriceps extensor, quadriceps or quads) is a large muscle group that includes the four prevailing muscles on the front of the thigh.
Quaternary Science Reviews
Quaternary Science Reviews is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering quaternary science.
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Radius
In classical geometry, a radius (radii or radiuses) of a circle or sphere is any of the line segments from its center to its perimeter, and in more modern usage, it is also their length.
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
The Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM), Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology, is headquartered in Mainz.
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Reginald Innes Pocock
Reginald Innes Pocock, (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist.
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René Lesson
René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.
Respiratory rate
The respiratory rate is the rate at which breathing occurs; it is set and controlled by the respiratory center of the brain.
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Richard Taylor (editor)
Richard Taylor (18 May 1781 – 1 December 1858) was an English naturalist and publisher of scientific journals.
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Roadkill
Roadkill is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman people
The Roman people was the body of Roman citizens (Rōmānī; Ῥωμαῖοι) during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire.
Rosette (zoology)
A rosette is a rose-like marking or formation found on the fur and skin of some animals, particularly cats.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Sagittal crest
A sagittal crest is a ridge of bone running lengthwise along the midline of the top of the skull (at the sagittal suture) of many mammalian and reptilian skulls, among others.
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Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
Saint Louis Zoo
The Saint Louis Zoo, officially known as the Saint Louis Zoological Park, is a zoo in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Scapula
The scapula (scapulae or scapulas), also known as the shoulder blade, is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone).
Scavenger
Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.
Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Serengeti
The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa, spanning the Mara and Arusha Regions of Tanzania.
Serval
The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a wild cat native to Africa. Cheetah and serval are mammals of Africa and taxa named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber.
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Siberian tiger
The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is a population of the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris tigris native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China and possibly North Korea.
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Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
Skin grafting
Skin grafting, a type of graft surgery, involves the transplantation of skin.
Skull
The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain.
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series
The Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series is a collection of serial periodical publications produced by the Smithsonian Institution, detailing advances in various scientific and societal fields to which the Smithsonian Institution has made contributions.
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Snout
A snout is the protruding portion of an animal's face, consisting of its nose, mouth, and jaw.
Snow leopard
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), occasionally called ounce, is a species of large cat in the genus Panthera of the family Felidae. Cheetah and snow leopard are big cats, mammals described in 1775 and taxa named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber.
Social grooming is a behavior in which social animals, including humans, clean or maintain one another's bodies or appearances.
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Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
Southeast African cheetah
The Southeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) is the nominate cheetah subspecies native to East and Southern Africa. Cheetah and Southeast African cheetah are Acinonyx and mammals described in 1775.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.
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Species description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.
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Specific name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).
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Spermatozoon
A spermatozoon (also spelled spermatozoön;: spermatozoa) is a motile sperm cell, or moving form of the haploid cell that is the male gamete.
Sphinx
A sphinx (σφίγξ,; phíx,; or sphinges) is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle.
Springbok
The springbok or springbuck (Antidorcas marsupialis) is an antelope found mainly in south and southwest Africa. Cheetah and springbok are extant Pleistocene first appearances.
St. George Jackson Mivart
St.
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Stage (stratigraphy)
In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition.
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Sterkfontein
Sterkfontein (Afrikaans for Strong Spring) is a set of limestone caves of special interest in paleoanthropology located in Gauteng province, about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Muldersdrift area close to the town of Krugersdorp.
Sterling Publishing
Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. is a publisher of a broad range of subject areas, with multiple imprints and more than 5,000 titles in print.
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Strangling
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India (ISO: Bhārata kā Sarvōcca Nyāyālaya) is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India.
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Surguja district
Surguja district is a district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
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Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
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Sympatry
In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.
Synonym (taxonomy)
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
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Tame animal
A tame animal is an animal that is relatively tolerant of human presence.
Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
Tasmanian devil
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) (palawa kani: purinina) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
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Tassili n'Ajjer
Tassili n'Ajjer (Berber: Tassili n Ajjer, ṭāssīlī naʾjir; "Plateau of rivers") is a national park in the Sahara desert, located on a vast plateau in southeastern Algeria.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
Tehran Times
The Tehran Times is an English-language daily newspaper published in Iran, founded in 1979 as the self-styled "voice of the Islamic Revolution".
Territory (animal)
In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal consistently defends against conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression.
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Texas Tech University Press
The Texas Tech University Press (TTUP), founded in 1971, is the university press of the American Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock, Texas.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
The Burlington Magazine
The Burlington Magazine is a monthly publication that covers the fine and decorative arts of all periods.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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The Tribune (India)
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram.
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The Truth About Cars
The Truth About Cars (TTAC) is a blog covering automobiles, automotive products and the auto industry, begun in 2002 featuring a mix of automotive reviews, editorials and news.
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The Washington Times
The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on national politics.
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Theodor von Heuglin
Martin Theodor von Heuglin (20 March 1824, Hirschlanden, Württemberg5 November 1876), was a German explorer and ornithologist.
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Thomas T. Allsen
Thomas Theodore Allsen (February 16, 1940 – February 18, 2019) was an American historian specializing in Mongolian studies.
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Thomson's gazelle
Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) is one of the best known species of gazelles.
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Throat clamp
Throat clamp is a method of subduing that involves the predator using its jaw to grasp the throat of the prey and clamp tight so that the prey's windpipe is either crushed or blocked, causing asphyxiation.
ThunderCats
ThunderCats is a media franchise, featuring a fictional group of cat-like humanoid aliens.
Tibia
The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.
Transmembrane protein
A transmembrane protein is a type of integral membrane protein that spans the entirety of the cell membrane.
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Transvaal (province)
The Province of the Transvaal (Provinsie van Transvaal), commonly referred to as the Transvaal, was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994, when a new constitution subdivided it following the end of apartheid.
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Tuzk-e-Jahangiri
Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri or Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri (تزک جهانگیری) or Jahangir-nama (جهانگیرنامه) is the autobiography of Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1569–1627).
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Twyfelfontein
Twyfelfontein (Afrikaans: uncertain spring), officially known as ǀUi-ǁAis (Damara/Nama: jumping waterhole), is a site of ancient rock engravings in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia.
Ungulate
Ungulates are members of the diverse clade Euungulata ("true ungulates"), which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats in the United States.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg (Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg.
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University of Hawaiʻi Press
The University of Hawaiʻi Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiʻi.
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University of Pennsylvania Press
The University of Pennsylvania Press, also known as Penn Press, is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Urial
The urial (Ovis vignei), also known as arkars, shapo, or shapu, is a wild sheep native to Central and South Asia.
Valid name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the valid name of a taxon is the correct scientific name for that taxon.
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Vertebral column
The vertebral column, also known as the spinal column, spine or backbone, is the core part of the axial skeleton in vertebrate animals.
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Villafranchian
Villafranchian age is a period of geologic time (3.5–1.0 Ma) spanning the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages.
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Viscosity
The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate.
Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment.
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Vulnerable species
A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.
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Vulture
A vulture is a bird of prey that scavenges on carrion.
W. H. Allen & Co.
William H. Allen and Company (est. 1835) was a bookselling and publishing business in London, England, at first known for issuing works related to the British colonies.
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Wild goat
The wild goat (Capra aegagrus) is a wild goat species, inhabiting forests, shrublands and rocky areas ranging from Turkey and the Caucasus in the west to Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east. Cheetah and wild goat are extant Pleistocene first appearances.
Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a global 501(c)(3) non-governmental organization headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that states its mission as saving "wildlife and wild places across the globe".
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Wildlife Institute of India
The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is an autonomous natural resource service institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change, Government of India.
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Wildlife trade
Wildlife trade refers to the products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions.
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Wildlife Trust of India
The Wildlife Trust of India is an Indian nature conservation organisation.
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William Morrow and Company
William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926.
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Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a superheroine created by the American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), and artist Harry G. Peter in 1941 for DC Comics.
Woody plant encroachment
Woody plant encroachment (also called woody encroachment, bush encroachment, shrub encroachment, shrubification, woody plant proliferation, or bush thickening) is a natural phenomenon characterised by the increase in density of woody plants, bushes and shrubs, at the expense of the herbaceous layer, grasses and forbs.
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Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
Zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
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Zoo Biology
Zoo Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal "concerned with reproduction, demographics, genetics, behavior, medicine, husbandry, nutrition, conservation and all empirical aspects of the exhibition and maintenance of wild animals in wildlife parks, zoos, and aquariums." It is published by Wiley-Liss.
Zoological Society of London
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats.
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Zoological specimen
A zoological specimen is an animal or part of an animal preserved for scientific use.
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Zoologicheskii Zhurnal
Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (Зоологический Журнал, Zoological Journal) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published in Russian covering research in zoology.
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Zygosity
Zygosity (the noun, zygote, is from the Greek "yoked," from "yoke") is the degree to which both copies of a chromosome or gene have the same genetic sequence.
See also
Acinonyx
- Acinonyx
- Acinonyx aicha
- Acinonyx intermedius
- Acinonyx pardinensis
- African cheetah
- Asiatic cheetah
- Cheetah
- Cheetahs
- East African cheetah
- Northeast African cheetah
- Northwest African cheetah
- Southeast African cheetah
Big cats
Mammals described in 1775
- Arctic ringed seal
- Black-backed jackal
- Brown fur seal
- Central chimpanzee
- Cheetah
- Chimpanzee
- Common patas monkey
- Eastern wolf
- Gray fox
- Hairy slit-faced bat
- Mongolian wild ass
- Onager
- Oncilla
- Ringed seal
- Snow leopard
- Southeast African cheetah
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah
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