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Yes. Shrews are placental mammals.
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How are placental mammals classified?
Placental mammals are grouped into Xenartha (anteaters, sloths, and armadillos), Afrotheria (elephant shrews, tenrecs, golden moles, elephants, aardvarks, manatees, dugongs, and hyraxes), Euarchontoglires (rodents, rabbits, hares, pikas, tree shrews, colugos, and primates), and Laurasiatheria (hedgehogs, shrews, moles, solenodons, bats, whales, dolphins, porpoises, even-toed hoofed mammals, odd-toed hoofed mammals, pangolins, and carnivores). Each of these is further divided into orders, which are divided into families, which are divided into genera, which are divided into species. There are 21 orders and 132 families of placental mammals.
Is a shrew a placental mammal?
Yes, shrews are placental.
How long does a placental mammal carry its young?
It varies hugely from a week or two for mice and shrews up to a year for many large mammals.
Do placental mammals have fur?
Terrestrial placental mammals do have fur or hair. Marine placental mammals do not.
Are placental mammals and primates are same?
No. Primates are a group of placental mammals, but there are many placental mammals that are not primates.
Define placental mammals?
placental mammals are the most famous mammals
What are examples of placental animals?
Most mammals are placental...marsupial mammals and monotremes are not placental.
Are rabbits placental mammals or monotremes?
A rabbit is a placental mammal.
Are Bottle Nosed Dolphins placental mammals or marsupial mammals?
Dolphins are placental mammals.
Is a whale a marsupial?
Seals are placental mammals, as the young complete their development within the mother's uterus, attached to a placenta. They do not have a pouch like most marsupials, and they do not lay eggs like monotremes.
Does a bat have a pouch?
Neither. Bats are placental mammals, so they neither have a pouch, nor do they lay eggs.
Do any placental mammals have webbed feet?
Yes.Sea otters have webbed feet.Beavers have webbed hind feet.The Tibetan water shrew has webbed feet, although other shrews do not.
