Many species in the iris family have a great economic importance in ornamental horticulture and the cut flower industry, especially Gladiolus, Freesia, Sparaxis, Iris, Tigridia ( tiger lily ), Ixia ( corn lily ), Romulea, Neomarica, Moraea ( butterfly lily ), Nemastylis, Belamcanda, Sisyrinchium ( blue-eyed grass ), Crocosmia and Trimezia.

Many species have an erect woody stem which is covered with persistent dried leaves unless there have been fires, topped by a crown of long thin leaves.

Many species of Aloe are used medicinally and in cosmetics.

Many species of Amaryllidoideae are popular as ornamentals in parks and gardens.

Many individual names are formed by adding the suffix " ine " to the species or genus name.

Many defoliated forest areas were quickly invaded by aggressive pioneer species, such as bamboo and cogon grass, which make it unlikely the forests will be able to regenerate.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements.

Many species are of economic importance, mostly as sources of food acquired through hunting or farming.

Many primate and bear species will adopt a bipedal gait in order to reach food or explore their environment.

Many species of lizards become bipedal during high-speed, sprint locomotion, including the world's fastest lizard, the spiny-tailed iguana ( genus Ctenosaura ).

Many Bacillus species are able to secrete large quantities of enzymes.

Many species of carnivorans are solitary, but a few are gregarious.

Many larger, pelagic species such as the Mackerel Sharks ( Lamnidae ) and the Thresher Sharks ( Alopiidae ) no longer possess them.

Many species of neornithines can build burrows, or nest in tree holes or termite nests, all of which provided shelter from the environmental effects at the K – T boundary.

Many species have large, yellow or white flowers.

Many cnidarian species produce colonies that are single organisms composed of medusa-like or polyp-like zooids, or both.

Many sources list the domestic dog as Canis familiaris, but others, including the Smithsonian Institution and the American Society of Mammalogists, more precisely list it as a subspecies of C. l. familiaris ; the red wolf, eastern Canadian wolf, and Indian wolf may or may not be separate species ; in the past, the dingo has been variously classified as Canis dingo, Canis familiaris dingo and Canis lupus familiaris dingo.

Many of the predatory species are important controls of agricultural pests.

Many chaparral plant species require some fire cue ( heat, smoke, or charred wood, and chemical changes in the soil following fires ) for germination.

Many animal species practice coprophagia as a matter of course ; other species do not normally consume feces but may do so under unusual conditions.

Many species of cactus have long, sharp spine ( botany ) | spines, like this Opuntia.

Many hunt in packs and are social animals, giving them an advantage over larger prey.

Many animal species use paralysing toxins to capture prey, evade predation, or both.

Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws.

Many of the highly aquatic species, however, have no muscles in the tongue, and do not use it for capturing prey, while most other species have a mobile tongue, but without the adaptations to the hyoid bone.

Many prehistoric deities are either predators or prey of humans, often in a zoomorphic form, perhaps alluding to the importance of hunting for most Palaeolithic cultures.

Many species of bird may be considered partly or exclusively predatory ; however, in ornithology the term " bird of prey " applies only to birds of the families listed below.

Many predators specialize in hunting only one species of prey.

Many dinoflagellates are known to be photosynthetic, but a large fraction of these are in fact mixotrophic, combining photosynthesis with ingestion of prey.

Many extant dinoflagellates are parasites ( here defined as organisms that eat their prey from the inside, i. e. endoparasites, or that remain attached to their prey for longer periods of time, i. e. ectoparasites ).

Many species of small rodents are active at night because most of the dozen or so birds of prey that hunt them are diurnal.

Many of these animals are prey to larger animals, including fish such as striped bass, black drum and croakers.

Many seabirds feed on the ocean's surface, as the action of marine currents often concentrates food such as krill, forage fish, squid or other prey items within reach of a dipped head.

Many species of hoverfly larvae prey upon pest insects, including aphids and the leafhoppers which spread some diseases like curly top.

Many species search for prey such as grubs by " open-bill probing ", that is, forcefully opening the bill after inserting it into a crevice, thus expanding the hole and exposing the prey ; this behavior is referred to by the German verb zirkeln ( pronounced ).

Many starfish, such as Astropecten and Luidia, swallow their prey whole, and start to digest it in the stomachs before passing it into the pyloric caeca.

Many species will also opportunistically take larger prey, including birds and bird eggs, rodents, and more rarely carrion.

Many snakes are able to obtain their prey through constriction.

Many animals prey on eastern towhees and their eggs, including reptiles, mammals, and birds.

Many semiaquatic bugs ( Heteroptera ) are known to engage in kleptoparastism of prey.

Many still-hunt, watching for prey activity from a perch such as a tree, bush, pylon, telephone pole, hummock or other high object.

Many species have a projectile tongue and hyoid apparatus, which they can fire almost a body length at high speed to capture prey.

Many of these also escape into the wild, where they prey on indigenous snails, such as the Cuban land snails of the genus Polymita, and the indigenous snails of Hawaii.