1.   Because of their mobility as compared with smaller mammals, bears and foxes escaped the fire for the most part.

2.   Rather than diverging across the river, as the tamarins do, these smaller mammals were genetically split instead into upriver and downriver lineages.

3.   Four Caribbean nations drafted a resolution Monday to prevent the International Whaling Commission from regulating fishing of smaller mammals that are traditional foods in their countries.

4.   They often destroy the natural tree canopy vital for the survival of smaller mammals, birds, bats, snakes, lizards and insects.

5.   They use spears to hunt animals such as monitor lizards, wild boar, tapirs, deer and other smaller mammals.