Eastern Meadowlark
The flute-voice of open fields
Mating System Types
Polygyny
Mating system where one male mates with multiple females, the most common form of polygamy in animals
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Welsh Black Cattle
Built for Welsh hills, bred for beef
Senepol Cattle
Slick-coated taurine built for the tropics
Nguni Cattle
Built for the rangeland, born in color
English Longhorn Cattle
Forward horns, old Britain's beef
Nelore Cattle
Built for the tropics, born to thrive
Lineback Cattle
The stripe that stands out.
Ocellated Turkey
The rainforest turkey with jeweled eyes
Ceratopsian
Beaks, frills, and horns: Ceratopsia!
Dickcissel
Prairie singer, South America traveler
Diprotodon
Pleistocene giant of Australia
Sivatherium
Shiva's horned giant of giraffids
Hippopotamus gorgops
The high-eyed hippo of deep time
Cervalces latifrons (Broad-Fronted Moose)
The Pleistocene's broad-browed moose
Embolotherium
Asia's Eocene battering-ram giant
Equus giganteus
Big horse of Ice-Age America
Irish Elk
The deer with antlers like doorways
Waterbuck
Ringed rump, river-edge ruler
Goral
Built for cliffs, not flatlands
Bhutan Takin
Bhutan's Roman-nosed mountain bovid
Jamaican Iguana
Jamaica's "Lazarus" Rock Iguana
Purussaurus
Miocene mega-caiman of South America
Lystrosaurus
The beaked survivor of Earth's worst crisis
Pachycephalosaurus
Built like a bipedal battering ram