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URI:
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Definition:
being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber 1775) (gray fox)
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Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber 1775) (gray fox)
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Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus 1758) (fox, red fox)
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Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus 1758) (fox, red fox)
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Wolbachia pipientis
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Wolbachia pipientis
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bilaterally symmetric
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Definition:
being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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vermiform
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shaped like a worm
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A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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organism living in symbiosis, a close and long-term biological association, with another organism
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Gulf Of California
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California
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http://www.geonames.org/5332921
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China
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http://www.geonames.org/1814991
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The Nearctic
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q737742
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one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecozone_Nearctic.svg
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The Neotropics
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q217151
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one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecozone_Neotropic.svg
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000856
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Incorporated populated place.
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female larger
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Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus 1758 (dog)
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Panthera tigris (Linnaeus 1758) (Tiger)
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Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus 1758 (dog)
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Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus 1758 (dog)
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Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus 1758 (dog)
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GaláPagos Islands
URI:
http://www.geonames.org/3658931
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locomotion
Burr and Robinson 2004
undulatory
URI:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7884068
Definition:
motion characterized by wave-like movement patterns that act to propel an animal forward. eg: crawling in snakes, or swimming in the lamprey. Typically utilized by limbless animals
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migration
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nonmigratory
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Definition:
Does not make seasonal movements between breeding and wintering grounds.
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motility
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actively mobile
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uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis
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Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 (Horse)
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Spilogale gracilis Merriam 1890 (Western Spotted Skunk)
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Monachus schauinslandi Matschie 1905 (Hawaiian Monk Seal)
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Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus 1766) (Common Muskrat)
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Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 (gray wolf)
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provisioning
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2874419
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supplying materials, especially food
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soft bodied
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12501479
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non-skeletal fauna
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endoparasite
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9300235
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parasite that lives within the body or cells of its host
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parasite
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12806437
Definition:
organism adapted to living on or in another organism and causing harm to its host
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carnivore
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
Definition:
organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
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Crustacean body sizes
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