Mammals Flashcards

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Mammary Glands

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This is a milk producing gland unquie to mammals

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Hair

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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

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Endothermic

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This is gaining or having been heated from one’s body internally.

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Insectivores

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This is the pratice of eating bugs. Some humans find them good. Yuck!

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Carnivores

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This is a mammal that feeds on flesh.

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Omnivores

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This is a mammal that eats both meat and plants of whatever origin.

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Ruminant Herbivores

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These are creatures that have a singled chambered stomach.

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Incisors

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A narrow edged tooth in front of the jaw. These are for cutting.

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Molars

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a grinding set of teeth in the back of the mouth.

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Canines

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These are sharp pionted teeth between the Incisors and the premolars

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Monotremes

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mammals that lay eggs not give birth to living young.

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Marsupials

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Are mammals that have their young born in a fetus, and are raised in a pouch.

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Placenta

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This is a flat organ that in the fetus nourishes, and helps grow the young one for it’s birth.

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Chiropetra

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This is another name for our flying mammal cuosins the bats.

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Primates

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These are our closest realitives, and they behave very simlaraor us. They are very hairy.

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Xenthrea

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These are sloths or sloths like creatures.

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Rodeita

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These are all the rodents, Mice, Rats, and Shwers.

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LagoMorpha

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These are hares, Rabbits, and other small mammals

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Proboscidea

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These are elephants, and other super mammals

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Sirneia

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These are mannetees, or seals

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Persissodactyla

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Horses, Rihones, and other horse liek creatures.

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Atridocta

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These are deer, girrafes, and other four legged creatures

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Ceterata

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These are all four toed cerutrees no dsitiintion.

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Theriapisis

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This is all mammals, and their ancestors. Like birds, and reptiles.