animal kingdom
noun
Example Sentences
Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 8 Apr. 2022
In the animal kingdom, there’s the unusual hairless rat and the aptly named blobfish, — the world’s ugliest animal since 2013.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2022
Today more than 50 labs use flies to study sleep, generating findings that suggest that sleep has a set of core features present across the animal kingdom.
—Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2021
Poison frogs across Central and South America display some of the most stunning colors in the animal kingdom.
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
Advertisement Other examples of self-domestication in the animal kingdom have proven elusive—until now.
—Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 3 Apr. 2023
Monarch butterflies perform one of the most mind-bending feats in the animal kingdom.
—Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 24 Mar. 2023
In fact, the way that war impacts the animal kingdom is one of the book’s recurring themes.
—Tobias Grey, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
Stories run the gamut from entertaining and humorous to sobering and tragic.—Gabriel Zamora Nature Animalogic The animal kingdom is fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying.
—Pcmag Staff, PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2023
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Word History
1650, in the meaning defined above
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“Animal kingdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/animal%20kingdom. Accessed 29 May. 2023.
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