Mammals Flashcards
the milk producing gland of a women or other female mammals
Mammary Glands
fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals
Hair
dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat
Endothermic
an insectivorous animal or plant
Insectivores
an animal that feeds on flesh
Carnivores
an animal or person that eats food of both plants an animals
Omnivores
mammals the process plant food in a multi-chambered stomach including one the ferments the plants via microbial actions
Ruminant Herbivores
a narrow edged tooth at the front of the mouth, adapted for cutting.
Incisors
a grinding tooth at the back mammal’s mouth
Molars
a pointed tooth between the incidors and premolars of a mammal, often greatly enlarged in carnivores
Canines
a primitive mammal that lays large yolky eggs and has a common opening for teh urogentital and digestive systems. monotremes are now restricted to australia and new guinea and comprise the platypus and echidnas
Monotremes
a mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother’s belly
Marsupials
a placental mammal
Placental
name of the order of the mammal capable of true flight
Chiroptera
various mammals that consist of lemurs, monkeys and apes
Primates
Suborder of Edentata comprising the american anteaters, armadillos, sloths and udually the extinct ground sloths
Xenarthra
Characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
Rodentia
a mammal. Rabbit, hare or Pika
Lagomorpha
a mammal. which compromises the elephants and their extinct relatives
Proboscidea
sea cows. Fully aquatic
Serenia
order of nonruminant mammals. Odd number of toes, molar teeth and transverse ridges on the grinding suface and posterior premolars
Perissodactyla
order of hoofed mammals (sheep, goat, pig, camel or ox)
Artiodactyla
marine mammal. (Whale, Dolphin, or porpoise)
Cetacea
extinct reptile of the permian an triassic order. The members od which are related to ancestors of mammals
Therapsids
