Mammals Flashcards
milk creating glad
Mammary Glands
heat on the inside
Endothermic
Something that eats insects primarily
Insectivore
plant eater
Herbivore
meat eater
Carnivore
both meat and plants
Omnivore
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
Ruminant
front teeth
incisors
middle
canine teeth
back teeth
molars
creation of babies on the inside
internal fertilization
is the time in which a fetus develops, beginning with fertilization and ending at birth
Gestation period
sac in which the baby comes in and with
placenta
Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials and placental mammals.
Monotremes
has pouch
Marsupials
forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.
Chiroptera
monkeys and humans
Primates
anteaters, sloths, armadillo
Xenarthra
rats
rodentia
rabbits and bunnies
lagomorpha
tigers lions
carnivora
elephants
proboscidea
manatees
sirenia
rhinos and zebra
perissodactlya
camel antilope and giraffe
artiodactyla
dolphins whales
Cetacea
between reptiles and mamals transition
Therapsids
