Kangaroo rat - Kangaroo rat Kangaroo rats Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Eutheria Order: Rodentia Family: Heteromyidae Genus: Dipodomys Kangaroo rats are small rodents native to North and Central America. The name derives from their bipedal form (they hop like tiny kangaroos) but the resemblence is purely visual: kangaroo rats and kangaroos are not related, other than in that both groups are mammals. There are 21 species, all in the genus Dipodomys. Size varies from 100 to 200 mm, with a tail of equal or slightly greater length; weight can be anywhere between 35 and 180 grams. The most distinctive feature of the kangaroo rats is their very long, hind legs. Like the jerboas of African and Asian deserts and the hopping mice of outback.
Rat - Rat Rat Rattus rattus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae A rat is a small omnivorous rodent of the genus Rattus. Rats are mammals somewhat bigger than their relatives the mice, but seldom weighing over 300 grams. Well-known species of rat are the Brown Rat, Rattus norvegicus; the Black Rat, Rattus rattus; the Rice Rat, Rattus argentiventer, and the Indian Mole Rat, Bandicota bengalensis. These four common varieties of rat often live with and near humans, share their food and spread disease. The Black Plague is believed to have been spread by rat-borne parasites. Rats are also blamed for damaging food supplies and other goods. They have a very poor reputation; "rat" is an insult and "to rat on someone".
Kangaroo - Kangaroo A Kangaroo is any of several large macropods (the marsupial family that also includes the wallabies, tree kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons and the Quokka: 45 species in all). The term kangaroo is sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to all members of the macropod family. Eastern Grey Kangaroo. There are three species of kangaroo: The Red Kangaroo (Macropus rufus) is the largest and the largest surviving marsupial anywhere in the world. Red Kangaroos occupy the arid and semi-arid centre of the continent. A large male can be 1.5 m tall and weigh 85 kg. The Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) is less well-known than the red, but the most often seen, as its range covers the fertile eastern part of the continent. The Western.
Extinct Australian animals - role, so far these three have been far and away the most significant. Extinct Australian vertebrates: 1788 to present: King Island Emu, Dromaius ater, King Island, 1805. Hunting. Kangaroo Island Emu, Dromaius baudinianus, Kangaroo Island, 1827. Hunting, fires. White-footed Tree-rat, Conilurus albipes, Victoria, coastal NSW and South Australia, early 19th century. Unknown causes. Big-eared Hopping Mouse, Notomys macrotis, south-west WA, 1843. Uncertain causes, probably predation by cats and foxes. Darling Downs Hopping Mouse, Notomys mordax South-east Qld, 1846. Uncertain, probably predation by cats. Broad-faced Potoroo, Potorous platyops, South-west WA, 1865. Unknown causes: related species have declined because of grazing and clearing of dense vegetation for agriculture. Eastern Hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes leporides, Murray-Darling basin, 1890. Decline of Aboriginal burning, grazing. Short-tailed Hopping Mouse, Notomys amplus, widespread, 1896. Uncertain, probably habitat change, predation by.
Diprotodontia - Many of the largest and least atheletic diprotodonts (along with a wide range of other Australian megafauna) became extinct when humans first arrived in Australia about 50,000 years ago, possibly as a direct result of hunting, but more probably as a result of widespread habitat changes brought about by human activity, fire in particular. A young Western Grey Kangaroo shows its diprotodont lower teeth. There are two key anatomical features that, in combination, identfy the diprotodonts. The first of these is that they are diprotodont: they have a pair of large, procumbent incisors on the lower jaw. This is a common feature of many early groups of mammals and mammaliforms. The diprotodont jaw is short, usually with 3 pairs of upper incisors (wombats, like rodents have only one pair), and no.
Petauridae - Vombatiformes: wombats and Koala Suborder Phalangerida Family Phalangeridae: brushtail possums and cuscuses Family Burramyidae: pygmy possums Family Tarsipedidae: Honey Possum Family Petauridae Great-tailed Triok, Dactopsila megalura Long-fingered Triok, Dactopsila palpator Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivergata Fergusson Striped Possum, Dactylopsila tatei Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis Northern Glider Petaurus abidi Sugar Glider Petaurus breiceps Mahogany Glider Petaurus gracilis Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis Biak Glider, Petaurus biacensis Family Pseudocheiridae: mostly ringtailed possums Family Acrobatidae: feathertail gliders Family Hypsiprymnodontidae: Musky Rat Kangaroo Family Macropodidae: kangaroos and allies.
Possum - Common Ringtail possums were introduced to New Zealand by Europeans in an attempt to establish a fur industry. They quickly escaped into the wild and the Brushtail in particular has become established in great numbers: around 60 million individuals. There have been numerous attempts to eradicate them because of the damage they do to native trees and wildlife. For New Zealand, possums have been almost as much of an ecological disaster as rabbits have been in Australia. Although the Common Brushtail and (to a lesser extent) Ringtail possums have adapted well to European settlement, many of the lesser-known species are reduced in number, threatened, or endangered. About two-thirds of Australian marsupials (magnorder Australidelphia) belong to the order Diprotodontia, which is split into two suborders: the Vombatiformes (wombats and the Koala, 4.
Potoridae - family Potoridae includes the bettongs, potoroos and rat-kangaroos. All are small, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodent or a very small wallaby. The potoroids are, like nearly all diprotodonts, herbivorous. However, while they take a wide variety of vegetable foods, most have a particular taste for the fruiting bodies of fungi, and often depend on fungi to see them through periods when there is little else to eat in the dry Australian bush. There are five species of bettong: including the Northern Bettong (Bettongia tropica) and the Tasmanian Bettong (Bettongia gaimadi). Bettongs were endangered because settlers took much of their habitat and their foxes also killed many of them. At one time, both species lived all over Australia. But today, the Tasmanian Bettong lives only in the eastern half.
Nocturnal - Bandicoot Bat Beaver Bullfrog Bushbaby Cassowary Cat Coyote Deer Deer mouse Dobsonfly Douroucouli Echidna Fennec Firefly Flying squirrel Red fox Gecko Gerbil Ghost crab Green sea turtle Hamster Snowshoe hare Harvest mouse Hedgehog Heron Hippopotamus Hyena Kangaroo rat Kiwi Koala Leopard Loris Lumholtz tree-climbing kangaroo Moth Nightjar Oilbird Okapi Opossum Owl Pangolin Periwinkle Possum Raccoon Rainforest amethyst python Rainforest dingo Rat Red-legged pademelon Rhinoceros Skunk Sugar glider Tiger Tree frog Weasel Whippoorwill White-tailed uromys Wolf Woodcock.
Mammal - the 20th Century. Since Simpson's 1945 classification, the paleontological record has been recalibrated, and the intervening years have seen much debate and progress concerning the theoretical underpinnings of systematization itself, partly through the new concept of cladistics (q.v.). Though field work gradually made Simpson's classification outdated, it remained the closest thing to an official classification of mammals. In 1997, the mammals were comprehensively revised by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell, which has resulted in the McKenna/Bell classification. McKenna and Bell, Classification of Mammals: Above the species level, (1997) is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal taxa, living and extinct, down through the rank of genus. The new McKenna/Bell classification was quickly accepted by paleontologists. The authors work together as paleontologists.
Marsupial - than placentals; marsupials must retain a grasping forepaw and cannot develop it into a hoof, wing, or flipper as some groups of placental mammals have done. There are between 260 and 280 species of marsupials, almost 200 of them native to Australia and nearby islands to the north. There are also many extant species in South America and one species, the Virginia Opossum, native to North America. The are two primary divisions of Marsupialia: the Ameridelphia, the American marsupials; and the Australidelphia, the Australian marsupials. Order Micorbiotheria (which has only one species, the Monito del Monte) is found in South America but is believed to be more closely related to the Australidelphia. There are many small, arboreal species in each group. Those in Ameridelphia are often called "opossums", while those in.
Minawara and Multultu - Minawara and Multultu were the ancestors of the Nambutji. They were kangaroo-men, and came from a pile of debris carried away by the Great Flood. They made a hole to sleep in, but were scolded by a rat man who told them to sit in the trees' shade. They did so and then continued their trip and began wearing feathers; their lungs and mucus were thrown away and turned into rockss..
Lava Beds National Monument - Lake. Federal and state animal species of special concern in the monument include: Coopers Hawk (Accipiter cooperii), Fringed Myotis (Myotis thysanodes), Long-eared Myotis (Myotis evotic), Long-legged Myotis (Myotis volans), Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus), Silver-haired Bat (Lasionycteris noctivigans), Townsends Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii), Western Small-footed Myotis (Myotis ciliolabrum), and American Badger (Taxidea taxus). Because of a lack of surface water in the monument amphibian presence in the monument is limited. The most common species found in the monument is the pacific tree frog (Hyla regilla). This species is also found in the biologically rich cave entrances in the monument. Reptile species found in the monument include: Northern Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus graciosus graciosus), Great Basin Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis biseriatus), Western Skink (Eumeces skiltonianus skiltonianus), Rocky Mountain Rubber Boa (Charina bottae utahensis), Gopher.
List of ethnic slurs - someone of Italian descent (a genuine Italian first name) guinea - U.S., someone of Italian descent gwailo or gweilo - Cantonese, see ghost '''Gypsy - a Sinti or Roma H habib - U.S., someone of Southeast Asian descent hajji - an Iraqi, Arab, Muslim, or occasionally other nonwhite, used by US occupation forces; one soldier notably wrote "Hodgie killer" on his footlocker. See Hajj for non-offensive usage. Hankee Yankee - US Asians, a white southerner. haole - native Hawaiians, a non-native white person heeb - U.S., a Jewish person (Short for Hebrew) hillbilly - U.S., a rural white person, esp. one from Appalachia, can be used jokingly unlike some terms honger - North America, a person from Hong Kong honky - U.S. blacks, a white person Hymie - U.S. blacks, a.
List of mammals - contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Marsupial 2 Monotreme 3 Placental Marsupial Kangaroo (Macropodidae) Monotreme Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus, Zaglossus brujini, Z. Attenboroughi) Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) Placental Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) African hunting dog (Lycaon pictus) African mole rat (Bathyergidae) Agoutis (Agoutidae) Armadillo (Dasypodidae) Anteater (Myrmecophagidae) Aye-aye (Daubentoniidae) Badger (Mustelidae) Bamboo rat (Rhizomyidae) Bat (Chiroptera) Bear (Ursidae) Beaver (Castoridae) Bulldog bat (Noctilionidae) Bumblebee bat (Craseonycteridae) Camel (Camelidae) Cane rat (Thryonomyidae) Caracal (Caracal caracal) Cat (Felidae) Cattle (Caprinae) Cavie (Caviidae) Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Chevrotain (Tragulidae) Chinchilla (Chinchillidae) Chinchilla rat (Abrocomidae) Chipmunk (Tamias) Civet (Viverridae) Colugo (Cynocephalus varigatus, C. volans) Common bat (Vespertillionidae) Coyote (Canis latrans) Deer (Cervidae) Desman (Desmaninae) Dhole (Cuon alpinus) Dingo Disk-winged bat (Thyropteridae) Dog (Canis) Dolphin (Delphinidae, Platanistoidea) Domestic horse (Equus caballus) Donkey (Equus asinus) Dormice (Gliridae) Dugong (Dugong dugon) Duiker (Cephalophinae) Dwarf antelope.
Kangaroo Island - Kangaroo Island Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island - after Tasmania and Melville Island. It is situated 120 km southwest of Adelaide, 16 kilometres offshore from Cape Jervis, on the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula in the state of South Australia. The island itself is is 155 km long and up to 55 km wide and covers an area of 4,500 square kilometres..
Kangaroo Jack - Kangaroo Jack Kangaroo Jack is a high-grossing buddy-action movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Jerry O'Connell and Christopher Walken. It premiered in the United States on January 11, 2003. The advertising campaign had made many parents think that the movie was a family-friendly film with a talking kangaroo. Once they took their children to see the movie, many parents were angry that they had been deceived by the campaign. After a successful opening week, the movie did considerably worse business once its eroticism and violence were revealed. Users of the Internet Movie Database have voted the film a position on the site's list of the 100 worst films ever made..
Kangaroo court - Kangaroo court A kangaroo court is a sham legal proceeding or court. It may be a court that has had its integrity attacked, i.e., the impartiality of the judge who refuses to be recused. It can be a derogatory term that may be used to describe the dispute resolution mechanism used by prison inmates to resolve disputes within the prison based upon the pecking order of the prisoners. It can also be a positive term. For example, a baseball team might have a kangaroo court to punish players for errors and mistakes on the field. Fines are allotted, and at the end of the year, the money collected is given to charity. Although it might be an obvious guess that the phrase was coined in Australia,.
King Rat - King Rat King Rat is the debut novel by James Clavell published in 1962. It is set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II. The 1965 film version was directed by Brian Forbes and starred George Segal as Corporal King. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Cinematography and Art Direction. King Rat is also the title of the debut novel by China Miéville. It is a dark urban fantasy set in London and interweaving the myths of the Rat King and The Pied Piper of Hamelin against an aesthetic of drum'n'bass and jungle music. The King Rat is also the head of the Grand Order of Water Rats, a Music Hall society of Great Britain. The title comes from the name of.
Jack Black (rat catcher) - Jack Black (rat catcher) Jack Black was rat catcher and mole destroyer by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the 1860s. Black cut a striking figure in his self-made "uniform" of scarlet topcoat, waistcoat and breeches, with a huge leather belt inset with cast-iron rats. Black was, amongst other things, an accomplished dog breeder. He is quoted in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3 as saying: "I had a little rat dog--a black tan terrier by the name of Billy which was the greatest stock dog in London of that day. He was the father of the greatest portion of small black tan dogs in London now. I've been offered a sovereign per pound (in weight) for some of my little terriers, but.
