#Sciuromorph

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Red squirrel cracking a nut By: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt From: Life Nature Library: Animal Behavior 1965

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Word List: Animals

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Aardwolf - a maned striped nocturnal mammal (Proteles cristatus) of southern and eastern Africa that resembles the related hyenas and feeds chiefly on insects and especially termites

Bittern - any of various small or medium-sized, short-necked, usually secretive herons

Chevrotain - (also called mouse deer) any of several very small hornless deerlike ruminant mammals of tropical Asia, the Malay archipelago, and West Africa superficially resembling the musk deer, the male having short tusks, and being among the smallest known ruminants, standing only about a foot high

Douroucouli - (also called owl monkey) any of several small nocturnal monkeys (genus Aotus) of Central and South American tropical forests that have round heads, large eyes, and densely furred bodies

Eland - either of two large African antelopes (Taurotragus oryx and Taurotragus derbianus) bovine in form with short spirally twisted horns in both sexes

Falconet - any of several very small falcons

Gemsbok - a large and strikingly marked oryx (Oryx gazella) formerly abundant in southern Africa

Hoatzin - a crested large South American bird (Opisthocomos hoazin) with blue facial skin, red eyes, brown plumage marked with white above, and claws on the first and second digits of the wing when young

Ichneumon - a mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) of Africa, southern Europe, and southwestern Asia

Jacana - any of a family (Jacanidae) of long-legged and long-toed tropical wading birds that frequent coastal freshwater marshes and ponds

Klipspringer - a small antelope (Oreotragus oreotragus) that is somewhat like the chamois in habits and is found from Cape Colony to Somaliland

Lammergeier - a large Old World vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) that occurs in mountainous regions, has long black bristles at the base of the bill, and in flight resembles a very large falcon; bearded vulture

Muntjac - any of a genus (Muntiacus) of small deer of southeastern Asia with an alarm call similar to the bark of a dog and having in the male elongated, downward-pointing upper canine teeth which protrude from the lip and short, usually unbranched, pointed antlers; barking deer

Nightjar - any of a family (Caprimulgidae) of medium-sized long-winged crepuscular or nocturnal birds (such as the whip-poor-wills and nighthawks) having a short bill, short legs, and soft mottled plumage and feeding on insects which they catch on the wing

Ouzel - blackbird

Palfrey - archaic: a saddle horse other than a warhorse; especially: a lady's light easy-gaited horse

Quetzal - a Central American trogon (Pharomachrus mocinno) that has brilliant green plumage above, a red breast, and in the male long upper tail coverts

Rosella - an Australian parakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird having the head and back of the neck scarlet and the cheeks white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast red and yellow

Springhare - jumping hare i.e., a sciuromorph rodent (Pedetes cafer) of southern and eastern Africa that resembles a kangaroo in form, that is about two feet long, and that is tawny brown in color and of nocturnal and social habits

Thylacine - Tasmanian tiger i.e., a somewhat doglike carnivorous marsupial (Thylacinus cynocephalus) that formerly inhabited Tasmania but is now considered extinct

Uintatherium - a genus (the type of the family Uintatheriidae) of large herbivorous ungulate mammals of the order Dinocerata from the Eocene of Wyoming resembling elephants in size and in the conformation of their limbs and having three pairs of bony protuberances respectively on the parietal, maxillary, and nasal bones of the skill, a pair of canine tusks guarded by downwardly directed processes of the lower jaw but no upper incisors, and a proportionately very small brain

Vaquita - a small, highly endangered porpoise (Phocoena sinus) of the Gulf of California having a dark ring around the eyes and reaching only four to five feet (1.2 to 1.5 meters) in length

Whitecoat - a very young hair seal and especially a harp seal

Xiphias - a genus (the type of the family Xiphiidae) of large scombroid fishes comprising the common swordfish

Zho - (also called dzo) a hybrid between the yak and the domestic cow

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tagging system:

🩸🐾 - bleeding / relatively intact 🫀🐾 - maimed / dismembered / internal organs visible 🦴🐾 - decomposition / skeleton 🏹🐾 - predation

any tag + 💓 - living animal

💀 + animal - dead animal

🐖 - domestic pig 🐗 - other suids 🐇 - rabbits 🐿️ - sciuromorphs 🐀 - other rodents 🦌 - true deer 🦘 - marsupials 🐺 - canines 🦝 - raccoons �� - seals 🐒 - primates 🐈 - feliforms 🦉 - owls 🦅 - other birds of prey 🕊️ - columbids 🐧 - penguins 🐦 - other birds 🐢 - testudines

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Mami! by mayer-chr

[danbensen]

The cladogram for the species mentioned in...I’d say the first 2/3rds or so of Fellow Tetrapod. 

In order to appearance we have:

Humans (hominins)

Monumentals (stem-archaeocetes)

Tensors (Von Neuman Machines originally made by therapod dinosaurs)

Adventurians (anomodont therapsids)

Catenaries (salpid tunicates)

Sucessors (rotifers)

Cellendians (onychophores)

Parturians (bucerotid birds)

Quotidians (rotifers)

Translator bugs (lobopods)

Proskelisks (nudibranchs)

Sophronisters (xenacanthid sharks)

Pick (corvid birds)

Neurospastics (deinopid spiders)

Bucolics (xenacanthid sharks)

Greaves (procyonid carnivorans)

Loxodromes (desmodontine bats)

Metruians (octopods)

Strophinxes (placoderm fishes)

Multiplex (biofilms)

Propinquines (temnospondyls)

Vitrifers (scyphozoans)

Toxoplasmotics (stem-sciuromorphs)

Extrusians (myxinoid fishes)

Pneumaticons (phaeophyceaen brown algae)

Roridum (roridulacean bushes)

Sprocket (equisetid horsetail spores)

[vintagewildlife]

Grey squirrel By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

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Dormouse By: Karl Soffel From: Lebensbilder aus der Tierwelt 1908

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Bison looking at a prairie dog By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955

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Prairie falcon swooping down on a pair of prairie dogs By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955

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Prairie marmots By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

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Grey squirrel By: E. A. Janes From: Natural History Magazine 1989

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Prairie dog By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955

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Red squirrel By: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt From: Life Nature Library: Animal Behavior 1965

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Alpine marmots By: M. Behr From: Lebensbilder aus der Tierwelt 1910

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Woodland dormouse (Graphiurus murinus) By: Ernest P. Walker From: Walker's Mammals of the World 1964

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Grey squirrel with a hickory nut By: John R. Patton From: Natural History Magazine 1989