mammalian
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It’s illegal to feed undomesticated mammalian predators, including coyotes, but establishing that a crime occurred required evidence that animal services did not initially find, the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Its basic functions have been preserved throughout mammalian evolution.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Similarly, the development of the neocortex, which is exclusively mammalian and, according to Lori Marino of the Whale Sanctuary Project, provides for “self-awareness, social cognition, some form of memory, problem solving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It wasn’t painful, but after several weeks I developed alpha-gal syndrome, an increasingly common allergy to red meat, dairy and other mammalian food products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Surrounding the R-complex is the limbic system or mammalian brain, which evolved tens of millions of years ago in ancestors who were mammals but not yet primates.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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