animal kingdom
the animals of the world collectively.
Origin of animal kingdom
1- Compare mineral kingdom, plant kingdom.
Words Nearby animal kingdom
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How to use animal kingdom in a sentence
Co-breeding is a common behavior in the animal kingdom where three or more adults will help raise offspring.
Polygamy is just one reason why acorn woodpeckers are master survivalists | Purbita Saha | August 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceI think it’s now generally accepted that we are not the only beings on the planet with personalities, minds, and emotions — that we are part of and not separated from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Jane Goodall reveals what studying chimpanzees teaches us about human nature | Sigal Samuel | July 23, 2021 | VoxScience is coming around to understanding that we are part of the animal kingdom.
Jane Goodall reveals what studying chimpanzees teaches us about human nature | Sigal Samuel | July 23, 2021 | VoxNot only is the idea of the attentive, present father a fairly recent concept, it’s one with virtually no precedent in the animal kingdom.
Today more than 50 labs use flies to study sleep, generating findings that suggest that sleep has a set of core features present across the animal kingdom.
Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof. | Veronique Greenwood | May 18, 2021 | Quanta Magazine
In a Vice Video aptly called “Animal Fuckers” one unnamed man explains what turns him on in the animal kingdom.
The tiger is one of the most fearsome predators of the animal kingdom.
On a darker note, mallards, it turns out, are the deviants of the animal kingdom.
A Bouncy House of Boobs, A Quest for the G-Spot, and More Erotic Fun at the Carnival of Sex | Justin Jones | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne sign that depression is an adaptive behavioral response is its widespread presence in the animal kingdom.
In the final, he matches up against his estranged brother, played by Aussie Joel Edgerton (animal kingdom).
His grand work, the animal kingdom, forms an imperishable monument of his genius.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellIn the animal kingdom, besides the elephants, I was much struck by the number and tameness of the ravens of Ceylon.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferIn him are we all—no creed nor color barred—indebted for our first striking and imperfect impressions of the animal kingdom.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 | VariousIt will be the purpose of the following pages to show the chief characteristics of the great groups of the animal kingdom.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterKindness to the animal kingdom is the first, or a first principle in the growth of true philanthropy.
Beautiful Joe | Marshall Saunders
British Dictionary definitions for animal kingdom
a category of living organisms comprising all animals: Compare plant kingdom, mineral kingdom
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Cultural definitions for animal kingdom
The group of living things typically distinguished from members of the plant kingdom by the power of moving from place to place and by a metabolism that does not use photosynthesis.
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