Hainan hare

Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day. The common adjective is "nocturnal",...

In zoology, a folivore is a herbivore that specializes in eating leaves. Mature leaves contain a high proportion of hard-to-digest cellulose, less ...

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example, foliage, for the main component of its die...

Island endemic animals are found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island. Animals or organisms that are indigenous to a place ar...

Jumping (saltation) can be distinguished from running, galloping, and other gaits where the entire body is temporarily airborne by the relatively l...

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, snails), as compared with aquatic animals, which liv...

Among animals, viviparity is the development of the embryo inside the body of the parent. The term 'viviparity' and its adjective form 'viviparous'...

Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...

A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to create a space suitable for habitation, temporary refuge, or as a byproduct ...

Polygynandry is a mating system in which both males and females have multiple mating partners during a breeding season.

Polygamy is the practice of breeding with multiple partners. When a male breeds with more than one female at the same time – it is called polygyny....

Animals that do not make seasonal movements and stay in their native home ranges all year round are called not migrants or residents.