OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 56682

tayra

/ˈtaɪ.ɹə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
humayro • irará • tayra • viejo de monte
A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail.
A few tayras are known to live in areas of tall grass. Tayras forage for food on the ground and also in the trees, where their long tail helps them to balance as they move through…
Cope considered it partly arboreal, as tayras are, and possibly omnivorous as well as herbivorous, yet he thought he saw how it could have evolved into hulking Coryphodon in a rela…
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