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ringtail
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ringtail
a disease of mice, rats and hamsters; caused by low humidity and high temperatures in the environment. The tail swells and becomes annulated as a result of constrictions along its length. It eventually becomes gangrenous and drops off. The feet may also be swollen and reddened.


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Other animals--such as brushtail and ringtail possums and many wallaby species--rely heavily on the tree's leaves.
Sterelny offers a hypothetical, initially isolated population of ringtail possums the average weight of which is two kilograms.
For instance, why ringtail possums eat their own manure, ants of the same species fight and kill each other to feed their victims to their young and, or why, hummingbirds must eat insects.
 
 
 
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