All animals with backbones: vertebrates
Female mammals are provided with special milk-producing glands called mammary glands
Habitat is the kind of place in which an animal prefers to live
Mammals that eat plants: herbivores
Animals whose bodies are designed to maintain a constant body temperature - regardless of the outside temperature: warm - blooded
The largest group of mammal: rodents
Squirrel - rodent
Chimpanzee - primate
Wombat - marsupial
Fox - canine
Cougar - feline
Marsupial is a baby mammal that must finish developing in a special pouch outside the mother's body.
Bat is the only mammal that can fly.
Lions live in family groups called prides
Cheetah us the fastest land animal on earth
Giant pandas eat bamboo
Animals that live together in groups of the same kind: social animals
Blubber keeps whales and dolphins warm
Animals that eat other animals that have already died called scavengers
Antlers made of solid bone
Echidna is a mammal that lays eggs
Ruminant chews the cud
Nocturnal active at night
Skunks and other members of the weasel family produce a strong smelling substance called musk
Extinct mean an animal no longer exists
Father and mother are the same species purebred
God's design in nature to be able to respond to change: balance and nature
Instinct mean inherited behavior pattern
Moose is largest deer
Frog padded cushion at the bottom of the horse's foot
Mammal characteristic
- - Warm-blooded, have hair,
- - Hair keeps them warm and helps them hide from enemies
- - Have backbones, produce milk,
- - Give birth to live young, helps them care for their young - they have milk to feed their live young
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