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Poultry, domestic birds raised for their meat and eggs. Chickens, geese, and ducks are of greatest worldwide commercial importance.
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Leopard, a meat-eating animal of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies. The leopard, which is about 4 ½ feet (140 cm) long with a 30-inch (80-cm) tail, is smaller than its close relatives, the lion and the tiger, but it makes up in speed, agility, and ferocity what it lacks in size.
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