While all animal adjectives don’t end in -ine (simian, for instance), most of them do. There are -ine terms for more animals than most people know. Here’s a short list of some of the lesser-known entries on the list:
bats

—
pteropine
bulls

—
taurine
crows

—
corvine
deer

—
cervine
eagles

—
aquiline
fish

—
piscine
foxes

—
vulpine
frogs

—
ranine
geese

—
anserine
hares

—
leporine
horses

—
equine
kangaroo

—
macropodine
lobster

—
homarine
mice

—
murine
peacocks

—
pavonine
pigs

—
porcine
seals

—
phocine
sheep

—
ovine
ticks

—
acarine
wasps

—
vespine
wolves

—
lupine

So the next time you’re out in your back yard, think how impressed your next door neighbors will be when you point to a squirrel and calmly say: “My, what a fine sciurine specimen.” You just can’t argue with that kind of knowledge.