noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
marine mammals
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the effects of oil pollution on marine mammals
the higher animals/mammals/organisms etc (= animals etc that are more intelligent or advanced than others )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
female
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In general, all female mammals are cyclic, but only some are seasonal.
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Only a small proportion of the millions of eggs with which a female mammal is born mature and are released at ovulation.
high
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Certainly, it plays a more important role in higher mammals than in lower ones.
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They are expanding their knowledge of brain circuitry and learning-related physiological changes in the brains of higher mammals .
large
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For the large mammals , clearing the mountainsides for planting was inevitably disastrous.
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What is the largest land mammal now living in California?
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While larger mammals can often adapt, many lovely birds, butterflies, moths and other insects can not.
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Those of some larger mammals , for example hares and lynx, fluctuate in longer cycles of 10-13 years.
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Numbers of large mammals , including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
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In percentage terms the number of larger mammals , including primates, is very low.
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The effects of trampling by large mammals on pellets can be destructive, especially if the pellets are fresh or wet.
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Much obviously will have survived, but large mammals have probably been greatly reduced in number.
marine
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It had previously been thought that pollution posed the greatest threat to inshore marine mammals .
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The state of California includes among its natural endowments an unusual variety of valuable marine mammals .
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The Anisakidae are ascaridoids whose adults are parasitic in a wide rage of animals, including marine mammals and birds.
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An estimated 145, 000 of the marine mammals live off the California coast.
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Section 22 of the Act provided for the establishment of marine mammal sanctuaries.
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What happens to a large fish or a marine mammal when it dies?
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It covers fisheries, marine mammals and other resources within EEZs, providing for stocks that are shared by neighbouring states.
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But the powerful resonance of a marine mammal exhaling through its blowhole again reaches my ears.
other
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Poisoned wheat is put inside the holder which is designed to let in grey squirrels and exclude other small mammals .
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But they possess no vocal chords as man and other mammals do.
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Add in the E. coli living in other mammals and the number becomes even larger.
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A cross between man and other branches of mammals , that lived in the sea?
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Colugos differ in so many ways from other mammals that they thoroughly merit an order of their own.
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Like many other mammals , bats are also particularly well endowed with olfactory receivers and transmitters.
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This is known in other mammals including Ring-tailed Lemurs - also to be seen in the Walled Garden.
small
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It should be noted, however, that the sample tested is far smaller for mammals than for humans.
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What ever the bone type, however, Dodson found that very low water velocities were sufficient to move small mammal bones.
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They do not, however, collect bone, and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone.
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This is probably a comparatively rare occurrence for small mammals , but it certainly does occur.
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Predation One of the major causes of mortality in small mammals is predation.
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Stages in the formation and modification of small mammal bone assemblages.
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Lagomorphs such as rabbits and hares are also included here as small mammals .
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More versatile hunters such as the Kestrel will take any small mammals , birds, reptiles or even beetles as they are available.
■ NOUN
fauna
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Equitability depends on two things, the original equitability of the small mammal fauna and the degree of predator selectivity.
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The Westbury sediments are middle Pleistocene in age with numerous small mammal faunas in different parts of the breccia sequences.
land
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Their most important protein sources are from the sea as land mammals are now in decline.
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What is the largest of all land mammals ? 7.
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What is the largest land mammal now living in California?
sea
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Senators F. Sea mammals 7.
species
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The forests are home to 12 % of the world's mammal species and almost a fifth of bird species.
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More than 100 bird species and 35 mammal species have been identified at the park.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although humans may have the longest lifespan of any mammal , giant tortoises have the longest recorded lives among vertebrates.
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But not all mammals are as dependent upon their eyes as you.
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Coniferous forests, often hunting by day for mammals as large as squirrels and lemmings.
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In the older Secondary rocks there seemed to be no mammals at all, only bizarre reptiles.
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More than 100 bird species and 35 mammal species have been identified at the park.
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The whale then becomes a fine symbol for Melville because it is for him neither fish nor mammal .
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They are nocturnal and live on leaves, insects, small mammals and birds.
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While larger mammals can often adapt, many lovely birds, butterflies, moths and other insects can not.