Animals Mammals 3

One of the most amazing things about mammals is the different evolutionary niches theyve managed spread into over the last 50 million years. Biggest land mammal the african elephant. Slowest mammal the sloth less than 1 mph or 2 kph biggest mammal biggest animal that ever lived on earth the blue whale.

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List Of Characteristics Of Mammals

There are only about 4000 kinds of mammals.

Animals mammals 3. Smallest mammals the pygmy shrew weighing 12 27 gm and the bumblebee bat weighing about 2 gm loudest mammal the blue whale. Mammals are vertebrate animals constituting the class mammalia and characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding their young a neocortex fur or hair and three middle ear bones. Other intelligent mammals include the dolphin the elephant the chimpanzee and the pig. Youll find mammals on display at most of the major zoo exhibits including rivers edge jungle of the apes bear bluffs the childrens zoo the living world the primate house the chain of lakes the antelope yards big cat country and the sea lion arena.

Mammals are the animal class that people belong to. There are around 5450 species of mammals. In the placental mammals which have a placenta to facilitate nutrient and waste exchange between the mother and the developing fetus. The largest orders are the rodents bats and soricomorpha.

There are swimming mammals whales and dolphins flying mammals bats tree climbing mammals monkeys and squirrels burrowing mammals gophers and rabbits and countless other varieties. This sounds like a lot but when you consider there are 21000 kinds of fish and a whopping 800000 kinds of insects youll realize mammals are a pretty small class. Giant pterosaur sported 110 teeth and 4 wicked fangs a little more than 200 million years ago a four fanged pterosaur flew over the vast desert of triassic utah snagging other reptiles with its toothy mouth until it met its untimely end on the banks of a dried up oasis new research finds. Digitized computerized quilting patterns for computerized long arm quilting machines.

The next three are the. Except for the monotremes an egg laying order of mammals comprising echidnas and the duck billed platypus all mammals are viviparous they bear live young. Here are some of the ways that mammals are alike. Humans are the most intelligent.

Tallest mammal the giraffe. Mammals have unique brains and are often very intelligent. These characteristics distinguish them from reptiles and birds from which they diverged in the late triassic 201227 million years ago.