Like other mammals in the Metatheria, they are characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young, often residing in a pouch with the parent for a certain time after birth.

Like dolphins and whales, manatees and the dugong are totally aquatic mammals that never leave the water — not even to give birth.

Like all mammals, whales breathe air, are warm-blooded, nurse their young with milk from mammary glands, and have body hair.

Like other amniotes ( reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals ), they breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water.

Like many other large mammals, hippos are described as K-strategists, in this case typically producing just one large, well-developed infant every couple of years ( rather than large numbers of small, poorly developed young several times per year as is common among small mammals such as rodents ).

Like many of the first mammals they have adapted to a nocturnal, insectivorous way of life.

Like humans, but unlike most other mammals, guinea pigs cannot synthesize their own vitamin C and must obtain this vital nutrient from food.

Like most mammals, females nurse and care for their young at least until they are weaned.

Like the black stork, the pygmy owl had long since disappeared from the Harz, but returned in the 1980s of its own volition, as its ancestral homeland once again became more natural, so that there was sufficient food to support it ( insects, small mammals and small birds ) as well as standing dead wood ( spruce trees with woodpecker holes ).

Like other existing mammals, humans don't have this septomaxilla.

Like most Mesozoic mammals, it was a shrewish-sized animal.

Like all cranes, the Black Crowned Crane eats grass, insects, reptiles, and small mammals.

Like other feliformian carnivorans, mongooses descended from the viverravines, which were civet-or genet – like mammals.

Like other mammals that eat termites or ants, the numbat has a degenerate jaw with up to 50 very small non-functional teeth, and although it is able to chew, rarely does so, because of the soft nature of its diet.

Like other gliding mammals, the feathertail glider has a skin membrane between the fore and hind legs, thicker than that of the other marsupials like the sugar glider, but smaller in proportion, extending only between the elbows and knees.

Like most of the early mammals, Morganucodon was a small, furry, plantigrade animal.

Like all primitive mammals, the gait was somewhat sprawling, and the hind feet likely bore a spur similar to those found in the platypus and echidnas.

Like most stone-curlews, it is mainly nocturnal and specialises in hunting small grassland animals: frogs, spiders, insects, molluscs, crustaceans, snakes, lizards and small mammals are all taken, mostly gleaned or probed from soft soil or rotting wood ; also a few seeds or tubers, particularly in drought years.

Like many Arctic mammals, bearded seals employs a reproductive strategy known as delayed implantation.

Like all snakes, rattlesnakes do not have external ear openings, and the structures of their middle ear is not as highly specialized as those of other vertebrates, such as mammals.

Like most canids, the swift fox is an omnivore, and its diet includes grasses and fruits as well as small mammals, carrion, and insects.

Like its relatives, this secretive forest bird hunts birds, mammals and reptiles in woodland, relying on surprise as it flies from a perch to catch its prey unaware.

Like all cranes, they eat insects, reptiles, and small mammals.

Like most game birds, the northern bobwhite is shy and elusive.

Like most birds of prey, Common Kestrels have keen eyesight enabling them to spot small prey from a distance.

Like all birds of prey, eagles have very large hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong muscular legs, and powerful talons.

Like Gesner, Ulisse Aldrovandi, an encyclopedic naturalist began a 14-volume natural history with three volumes on birds, entitled ornithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII which was published from 1599 to 1603.

Like other birds of prey many owl species exhibit reverse sexual dimorphism in size, where females are larger than males ( as opposed to the more typical situation in birds where males are larger ).

Like some other birds, Columbidae have no gall bladders.

Like most families of aquatic birds, storks seem to have arisen in the Palaeogene, maybe 40-50 million years ago ( mya ).

These birds come to Cuba every year from North America in the north hemisphere winter season. Arctic Terns breed in the arctic and subarctic and winter in Antarctica. Like many birds, seabirds often migrate after the breeding season.

Like many ground birds, most lark species have long hind claws, which are thought to provide stability while standing.

Like other perching birds ( passerines ), it is affected by external and internal parasites and is vulnerable to predation by cats and birds of prey.

Like many Australian birds, it was named for its apparent similarity to the northern hemisphere birds familiar to European settlers.

Like all birds, the bills of sandpipers are capable of cranial kinesis, literally being able to move the bones of the skull ( other than the obvious movement of the lower jaw ) and specifically bending the upper jaw without opening the entire jaw, an act known as rhynchokinesis.

Like some other birds, the Sunbittern has powder down.

Like all members of the family they are slender, short necked birds with long tails, long slender legs with elongated ( in some cases very elongated ) hind claws.

" Like the cuckoo, they sometimes lay their eggs in the nests of other species such as seagulls, abandoning them to be raised by those birds.

Like other frigatebirds, this species does not walk or swim, but is a very aerial bird which obtains its food by picking up live prey items from beaches or the water surface, and the aerial piracy of other birds.

Like other passerine birds, the Common Chiffchaff can also acquire intestinal nematode parasites and external ticks.

Like most other birds they regurgitate the hard parts of their prey as pellets.