Mammals Flashcards
Milk producing gland for female mammals
Mammary Glands
Threadlike strands on skin
Hair
Generating your own heat
Endothermic
Animal that eats insects
Insectivores
Animal that eats other animals
Carnivores
Animal that eats other animals and plants
Omnivores
Animals that eat plants
Ruminant Herbivores
Narrow edged tooth at the front of the mouth
Incisors
Grinding tooth at the back of the mouth
Molars
Sharp tooth in the middle of the mouth
Canines
Mammal that lays eggs
Monotremes
Mammal that has a pouch for it’s young
Marsupials
Bear live young, and are birthed inside a female in a placenta
Placental
Mammals that can fly using a membrane attached to legs and/or arms
Chiroptera
Opposable thumbs
Primates
Mammals with a stable pelvic region and being able to support themselves while their body is horizontal
Xenarthra
Single pair of continuous growing incisors and largest group of mammals
Rodentia
Alike to rodents, large eared terrestrial mammals
Lagmorpha
Big in size, has a trunk for a nose
Proboscidea
Fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals
Sirenia
Odd amount of toes and have hooves
Perissodactyla
Even amount of toes and have hooves
Artiodactyla
Fully aquatic mammals with high intelligence
Cetacea
Possible ancestors of mammals, they were lizard-like during their time
Therapsids