Mammal vocab Flashcards
Milk producing gland
Mammary glands
Fine threadlike strands
Hair
Warm blooded
Endothermic
Carnivorous plant or animal that eats insects
Insectivores
Animal that feeds on flesh
Carnivores
Eats both plants and flesh
Omnivores
Process plant food
Ruminant herbivors
narrow edge tooth at the front of the mouth
Incisors
large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth
Molars
pointy teeth
canines
animals that lay eggs
montremes
animals that’re born and live in a pouch usually
marsupials
relating to a placenta
placental
Bat
Chiroptera
Monkey
Primates
ant eaters, tree sloths, armidillos
xenarthra
Rodents
rodentia
Rabbits
lagomorpha
elephants
Proboscidea
sea cows
sirenia
odd toed ungulate
parissodactlya
even toed ungulate
artiodactyla
whale
cetacea
mammals and their ancestors
therapsids