Tehuantepec jackrabbit

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

Crepuscular animals are those that are active primarily during twilight (that is, the periods of dawn and dusk). This is distinguished from diurnal...

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...

Zoochory animals are those that can disperse plant seeds in several ways. Seeds can be transported on the outside of vertebrate animals (mostly mam...

A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower. This helps to bring about fertilizat...

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...

Polygyny is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a single male.

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....

Solitary animals are those that live singly and meet only for courtship and mating.

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