Vocabulary

eutherians

metatherians

piscivore

folivore

frugivore

fruity

fruit cocktail

fruit jelly; fruit jello

tectonics

plume tectonics

plume

refugia; refugium

refugee

Tethys Sea

North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)

bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus); Greenland right whale

North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)

southern right whale (Eubalaena australis)

vomiting while asleep; sleep-puking

cat (Felis catus); domestic cat

farting while asleep

farting while asleep

several people; some people; a few people; a number of people

any number of people; as many people as one likes

many people; a large number of people

Niigata Minamata disease

Yokkaichi asthma

the four major pollution-caused illnesses (Minamata disease, Niigata Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai-itai disease); four big pollution diseases of Japan

straw post for training sword strikes, karate punches and arrow hits

dewlap; gular pouch

dewlap

(animal's) foraging

domestication

domestic equilibrium; internal balance; internal equilibrium

aiming for laughs; trying to make people laugh; playing to the crowd; crowd-pleaser

neoteny

paedogenesis; pedogenesis

bottom rim of cup or bowl

zorse (zebra-horse hybrid)

passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)