Mammals Flashcards
Mammary Glands
This is a milk producing gland unquie to mammals
Hair
hair on a mammal is used to warm the body and keep it warm. This is found on all mammals Their are two types of hairs. Their are two types of hair. Guard, and the
Endothermic
This is gaining or having been heated from one’s body internally.
Insectivores
This is the pratice of eating bugs. Some humans find them good. Yuck!
Carnivores
This is a mammal that feeds on flesh.
Omnivores
This is a mammal that eats both meat and plants of whatever origin.
Ruminant Herbivores
These are creatures that have a singled chambered stomach.
Incisors
A narrow edged tooth in front of the jaw. These are for cutting.
Molars
a grinding set of teeth in the back of the mouth.
Canines
These are sharp pionted teeth between the Incisors and the premolars
Monotremes
mammals that lay eggs not give birth to living young.
Marsupials
Are mammals that have their young born in a fetus, and are raised in a pouch.
Placenta
This is a flat organ that in the fetus nourishes, and helps grow the young one for it’s birth.
Chiropetra
This is another name for our flying mammal cuosins the bats.
Primates
These are our closest realitives, and they behave very simlaraor us. They are very hairy.