### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Cotton rat
* are mammals
  - rodents
* consume fruit
  - privet fruit

### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Dassie
* Some dassies have incisor teeth
* Some dassies have upper incisor teeth
* Some dassies occupy habitats
  - similar habitats
* are one to two feet long and weigh four to fourteen pounds.
* communicate using a wide range of sounds including growls, squeals and snorts.
* eat a wide variety of vegetation, including grasses, forbs, shrubs and the leaves of trees.
* have a poor ability to regulate their body temperature and a low metabolic rate
  - latrines, where they deposit their droppings and urine at a fixed site
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet

### animal | vertebrate | mammal | dassie:

Rock dassie
* Some rock dassies have incisor teeth
* Some rock dassies have upper incisor teeth
* have a glandular spot on their backs which is covered by longer hair than elsewhere.

Dasyurid
* are active mainly at night and prey upon almost any living thing that they can overpower
  - small to medium in size
* have acute senses and are considered alert and intelligent.

Desert mammal
* adapt to arid conditions
* produce concentrate urine

### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Dhole
* Most dholes have muzzles
  - use urine
* Some dholes attack livestock
  - defend bears
* Some dholes have long tails
  - inhabit rainforests
* Some dholes kill langurs
  - tigers
  - search for water sources
  - take down prey
* also eat berries, bugs, lizards, and rabbits and can hunt well on their own if needed.
* are a race of incredibly huge worm creatures
  - actually wild canids, efficient predators and communal pack hunters
  - an endangered species
  - canines
  - carnivorous
  - found in India, southeastern Asia to Indonesia, and parts of Russia, China, and Korea
  - grayish, with no visible eyes
  - great communicators and use an eerie whistle to communicate with each other
  - highly social animals and live in packs of about ten dogs
  - hunted for their fur and meat but they can be used for other things
  - known to occur in four sites in northern and central Malaysia
  - pack animals
  - pack-living and the entire pack often shares prey remains from a single kill
  - rare or extinct in most areas of India
  - sexually mature at about one year
  - unusual dogs for a number of reasons
* are very good swimmers, and often chase their prey into the water to help catch it
  - social, and all members of the pack help with raising and protecting the cubs
  - wild dogs
* have a complex body language
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - chests
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - nuclei
  - pads
  - paws
  - sterna
* prefer dense mountain and alpine forests or scrub jungles as their habitat.
* prey on deer, wild sheep, rodents and rabbits, and they prefer to hunt in packs.
* simply seek to feed on whatever food is available.
* sometimes harass much larger predators, even tigers, in efforts to steal their prey.

Different mammal
* Most different mammals come from families
  - eat plants
* Some different mammals have tracts.
* have their digestive tracts organised in different ways.
* make different contributions to our knowledge of the human genome.