How to Use equid in a Sentence
equid
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Cattle and other livestock can also transmit diseases such as anthrax and babesiosis to the wild equids.
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National Geographic,
2020-03-25
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With beautifully Zebra-esque striped legs, soft gray fur, a white belly and spiky black-and-gray manes, these asses stand out from the wild equid pack.
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Saryn Chorney,
PEOPLE.com,
2017-08-02
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The art includes 11 unharnessed camels and two equids—donkeys, mules or horses—grazing in natural environments.
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Jason Daley,
Smithsonian,
2018-02-14
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P. convexa also died out, perhaps because of a specialized foraging dependency on proboscideans, equids, camelids, or other large mammals.
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Brian Switek,
WIRED,
2011-03-14
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Bovids, equids and, in particular, canids, were put to work by H. sapiens; felids always took a slightly different view of the matter, but were indulged for their rodent-catching talents.
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The Economist,
2019-06-22
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