Why is it called a "beaver?"?
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Because it's fun to say...nice beaver.
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It would be a cold blooded animal, meaning it has no homeostatic mechanisms to regulate it's temperature (where warm blooded animals do things like sweat to cool them down, or shiver to warm them up). \nThe scientific name for a cold blooded animal is an 'ectotherm'.
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Fauna is a collective term for animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora. Flora, fauna and other forms of life such as fungi are collectively referred to as biota. \n\nCanadian Animals\n\n\n\nAmerican Beaver\n\nArctic Ground Squirrel\n\nArctic Hare\n\nArtic Fox\n\nBadger\n\nBat (Little Brown Bat)\n\nBear (Polar Bear)\n\nBeaver\n\nBlack Bear\n\nBlack-tailed Prairie Dog\n\nBlue Whale\n\nBobcat\n\nBrown Lemming\n\nBrown Snake\n\nBushy-tailed Woodrat\n\nButler's Garter Snake\n\nCanadian Lynx\n\nCascade Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel\n\nColumbian Ground Squirrel\n\nCommon Garter Snake\n\nCoyote\n\nCreeping Vole\n\nDeer Mouse\n\nDouglas's Squirrel\n\nEastern Chipmunk\n\nEastern Fox Squirrel\n\nEastern Gray Squirrel\n\nEastern Heather Vole\n\nEastern Hognose Snake\n\nEastern Ribbon Snake\n\nFin Whale\n\nFive-lined Skink\n\nFox (Arctic Fox)\n\nFox (Red Fox)\n\nFox Snake\n\nFranklin's Ground Squirrel\n\nGolden-mantled Ground Squirrel\n\nGopher Snake\n\nGreat Basin Pocket Mouse\n\nGreater Short-horned Lizard\n\nGreen Anole\n\nGreen Iguana\n\nHarbor Porpoise\n\nHare (Arctic Hare)\n\nHoary Marmot\n\nHumpback Whale\n\nKeen's Mouse\n\nLabrador Collared Lemming\n\nLeast Chipmunk\n\nLemming\n\nLittle Brown Bat\n\nLong-tailed Vole\n\nLynx (Canadian Lynx)\n\nMassasauga\n\nMeadow Jumping Mouse\n\nMeadow Vole\n\nMilk Snake\n\nMontane Vole\n\nMoose\n\nMountain Beaver\n\nMuskrat\n\nNight Snake\n\nNorth American Porcupine\n\nNorthern Alligator Lizard\n\nNorthern Bog Lemming\n\nNorthern Collared Lemming\n\nNorthern Flying Squirrel\n\nNorthern Grasshopper Mouse\n\nNorthern Pocket Gopher\n\nNorthern Red-backed Vole\n\nNorthern Right Whale\n\nNorthern Water Snake\n\nNorthwestern Garter Snake\n\nOlive-backed Pocket Mouse\n\nOrd's Kangaroo Rat\n\nPacific Jumping Mouse\n\nPlains Garter Snake\n\nPlains Pocket Gopher\n\nPolar Bear\n\nPorcupine\n\nPorpoise\n\nPrairie Skink\n\nPrairie Vole\n\nPronghorn\n\nPygmy Short-horned Lizard\n\nQueen Snake\n\nRaccoon\n\nRacer\n\nRedbelly Snake\n\nRed Fox\n\nRed Squirrel\n\nRed-tailed Chipmunk\n\nRichardson's Collared Lemming\n\nRichardson's Ground Squirrel\n\nRingneck Snake\n\nRock Vole\n\nRubber Boa\n\nSagebrush Vole\n\nSei Whale\n\nSharptail Snake\n\nSinging Vole\n\nSmooth Green Snake\n\nSouthern Bog Lemming\n\nSouthern Flying Squirrel\n\nSouthern Red-backed Vole\n\nSperm Whale\n\nStriped Skunk\n\nTaiga Vole\n\nThirteen-lined Ground Squirrel\n\nTimber Rattlesnake\n\nTownsend's Chipmunk\n\nTownsend's Vole\n\nTundra Vole\n\nVancouver Island Marmot\n\nWalrus\n\nWater Vole\n\nWestern Harvest Mouse\n\nWestern Heather Vole\n\nWestern Hognose Snake\n\nWestern Jumping Mouse\n\nWestern Ratsnake\n\nWestern Rattlesnake\n\nWestern Skink\n\nWestern Terrestrial Garter Snake\n\nWhale (Blue Whale)\n\nWhale (Fin Whale)\n\nWhale (Humpback Whale)\n\nWhale (Northern Right Whale)\n\nWhale (Sei Whale)\n\nWhale (Sperm Whale)\n\nWhite-footed Mouse\n\nWolverine\n\nWoodchuck\n\nWoodland Jumping Mouse\n\nWoodland Vole\n\nYellow-bellied Marmot\n\nYellow-pine Chipmunk
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The name bullfrog is derived from the "bull-like bellowing" sound that chorusing male bullfrogs emit.  Their call is an extremely loud, guttural bellow that carries a long distance, giving the impression that the frog is much larger than it actually is.
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wait a minute! You guys confused me! Is goofy a dog or is he a weredog/wolf? and what stops pluto from just eating that pesky little mouse?
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Most peole think it's because of the animal and that is untrue.  In the early years of the state the coal mines where the top employer.  the nicknames for the men and women who dug the holes to find the cole where called badgers.
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if I'm not mistaken,i saw on television some time back that it would be called gliding because a snail is considered to not actually touch the ground.this is because it actually deposits a thin layer of "slime"on which it "glides" (however slowly that may be) along the ground.hope this helps.
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The beaver is a mammal in the rodent order, genus Castor.\n\nThe cock is the name given to the male of many of the Galliform birds, and not a mammal at all.  It is most commonly applied to the male domestic chicken, genus Gallus.
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I have never pondered this, but you have a point. I've been kicked in the nutsack a couple of times and there was nothing funny about it. Plus it can damage your reproductive capabilities (which I don't need anyway, but hey)... so there.. question answered. -beaver (Rock Island, Illinois)
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it was a weird looking dog.... why ?
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It's supposedly a creature that lives in the U.S. It walks on two legs like humans but is covered in hair like primates. Some dodgy film footage allegedly showing Big Foot was shot in the 50s(?) but there is as much evidence that he exists as there is of the Loch Ness monster! He is also known as sasquatch but that is almost certainly not how you spell it!
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It's moose.  Just like sheep is singular and sheep is also plural
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I wonder that too, it's weird.  I suppose it's natural to come up with names for things you see as language develops- then everyone in your region calls it the same thing. (Hence the different dialects & languages.)  Then I wonder who got to name them- the leader of a group of people?  The first to talk about it?  Very interesting.  \n\nSome words make sense, like snake or wolf because that is how the animal sounds. \n\nI recommend calling things by totally different names that make sense to you, then insist that other people are crazy.  (Reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode where all the words for everything slowly changed for a man.  It ended with him paging through a children's word book in confusion, with things like the word "dinosaur" pictured with a ball.)
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It's a small rodent, larger than a rat, often used for laboratory experiments.  In conversation, it's sometimes used to refer to people who are testing something for someone else, such as when a cook trying a new dish says to her guests, "You are my guinea pigs."  It doesn't necessarily have a bad connotation.
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WE DO COME FROM THE DOMAIN KINGDOM ANAMILEA,\nBUT THAT DOSNT MEAN WE SHOULD GO AROUND CALLING OURSELVES ANIMALS ..\nITS ALL TO DO WITH THE WAY YOU POSE THE QUESTION. \nNOT MANY PEOPLE EDUCATED IN THAT FIELD "SCIENCE" WILL NOT UNDERSTAND TAXAMONY, WHICH LEAVES US WITH A MORE PRECISE WORD  " HUMANS " WHICH SOUNDS MORE CIVILISED AND LESS INSULTING.
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What do you call a group of beavers...A dam party!! lol
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>>>>WHY IS THIS IN ZOOLOGY? \n\nYou an' me baby ain't nothin' but mammals...