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Mammal vocab Flashcards

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Mammary Glands

A

Produce milk

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Endothermic

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Inside heat

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Insectivore

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Eat insects

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Herbivore

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Plant eater

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Carnivore

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Meat eaters

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Omnivore

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Eat plants and animals

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Ruminant

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Ruminants are mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through bacterial actions.

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Incisors

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tooth for cutting

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Canine teeth

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pointy teeth

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10
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Molars

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teeth in the back of mouth

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Internal Fertilization

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Egg and sperm together to produce a child

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Gestation period

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is the time in which a fetus develops, beginning with fertilization and ending at birth

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Placenta

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nutrient sac that helps baby grow

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monotremes

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Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials and placental mammals.

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Marsupials

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Kangroos and things that have a pouch

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Chiroptera

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Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight

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Primates

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Animals like monkeys, they have thumbs

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Xenarthra

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group of placental animals, sloths and armadillas

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Rodentia

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Rodents are mammals of the order Rodentia, characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Lagomorpha

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They are bunnies and rabits

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Carnivora

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tigers, lions, and big cats

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Proboscidea

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Elephants oh my!

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Sirenia

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Dugong and manatees

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Perissodactyla

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Rhinos and zebras

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Artiodactyla

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Horses

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Cetacea

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large sea animals

27
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Therapsids

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dinosaurs

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