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Carnivore and Stripes: Faunal Cryptograms
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  • 1. Suborder encompassing lions and crafty fox relatives
  • 2. Fancy family name for some Asian ’flying’ frogs with webbed digits
  • 3. Female counterpart to a cunning red predator
  • 5. Bears’ seasonal subterranean retreats, often chilly dens
  • 8. Family classification encompassing bears and their phylogenetic kin
  • 12. Class including frogs with distinct metamorphic life cycles
  • 13. Cryptic nod to panda’s primary deceptive diet
  • 15. Describes the typical active period of many fox species
  • 16. Pattern characteristic of some herbivorous Neotropical mammals
  • 17. Pallas's elusive wildcat, a feline straggler of Central Asia
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  • 4. Adaptive strategy enabling some frogs to deceive predators visually
  • 6. Genus name of the fishing cat, relatives of the lion’s broader family
  • 7. Scientific study used to measure characteristics of lion skulls
  • 9. Pertaining to or resembling the striped equids grazed by lions
  • 10. Term for evolutionary radiation in bears adapting diverse niches
  • 11. Prey class frequently stalked by foxes on the forest floor
  • 14. Loosely defined group inclusive of giant panda relatives
  • 18. Sensory whiskers critical for nocturnal fox prey detection
  • 19. Ancient measure roughly the length of a bear’s paw, cryptically

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