Mammals

Platypuses do not always have a big tail. The size of a platypus's tail is a indication of how healthy it is, and how much food has been available. A platypus stores most of its body fat in its tail to help it survive when food is limited, and to prepare for when the female must incubate her eggs and care for the young when they hatch.

The tail is also useful for other purposes, and needs to be a good size in order to perform these functions. During the breeding season, the female digs herself a chamber within her deep burrow, and this chamber is lined with leaves and other nesting material. The female with carry this nesting material rolled underneath her tail as she climbs up and down steep riverbanks. In addition, the tail of a platypus helps the animal to swim and acts as a rudder when it dives.

Yes, a Pit Bull Terrier is a warm-blooded mammal from the canine family.

No. Dingoes are placental mammals. There are just three species of monotreme: the platypus, the short-beaked echidna and the long-beaked echidna.

The most well-known genus of tree squirrels is Sciurus.

The body covering of birds is feathers. Mammals are covered in fur or hair.

Mammals lose heat because they are often warmer than their surroundings, it is a law of thermodynamics that heat flows from warm to cool.

Whales and dolphins are under the group called "cetaceans." Seals belong to the group of "pinnipeds."

Mammals are one-celled living creatures classified in the bacteria kingdom. they live in the water and feed off snakes. they die when the are about five years old. they can have up to three children.

Type 1 = high survivorship when young, and low at old age

Yes. Fish are ectothermic, commonly referred to as 'cold blooded', because their body temperature depends on their external environment. Mammals are endothermic, or warm-blooded because they can maintain their body temperature.

no they do not. Mammals are divided into three groups; monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals.

I have found the average lifespan of a black horse to be about twenty to thirty years. It does not matter if the horse is black, white or whatever color the horse is.

Newts, Narwhales, Nagapies (little night monkeys), Nighthawk, Nightingale, Nuthatch, and ECT.

No. Grasshoppers are insects.

Mammals have live young and nurse them.

Grasshoppers lay eggs and leave them to hatch in the sand on their own.

Birds are covered in feathers, have wings and beaks, walk on two legs, lay eggs, and most can fly.

Mammals are typically covered in fur, ususally walk on four legs, typically have teeth, give birth to live young (except for two species), and, with the exception of bats, cannot fly.

Monotremes are egg-laying mammals. They include the platypus and echidna.

Bats do. There are over 1,200 species.

Amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are all tetrapod's. The tetrapod's evolved from the lobe-finned fishes about 395 million years ago in the Devonian Period.

Why do not all humans live in the same habitat

Because humans are vertebrate, air-breathing animals who have live birth, and whose mothers produce milk for their young. Other criteria include sweat glands, hair/fur, and three middle ear bones.

what is the lifespan of a cotinga

It depends on the mammal. Horses are called foals, cows are called calves, dogs are called puppies, goats are called kids...etc

Kier whale trainers earn a very low wage considering what they do. It's roughly $40,000 a year. To become an animal trainer you have to be 18 years of age and have previous animal experience (large mammals or livestock preferably). You need to be able to speak confidently to the public and have good dance and drama skills. You need to be SCUBA and CPR certified. You need to have a university degree in animal behaviour, psychology or zoology. Swimming skills are the main part of the interview process. The swim test includes a 200 ft. freestyle swim, an 100 ft. underwater swim and a free dive to the bottom of a 26 ft. Your physical health needs to be top form and you need to be able to life 50 lbs. Trainers typically work 8 hours a day but sometimes more if necessary. The job isn't all glamourous. 70% of the work is cleaning the pools, toys, buckets etc. etc. 10% is a 30 minute fitness session, 5 days of the week. So only 20% of the works is with the animals. Also remember that killer whale trainers don't get time off work. It's very hard to get time off since it's important you're with the animals all the time. The components of an average day are divided into the various sessions with the animals which are: learning, relationship, exercise, play, and shows. The number and frequency of these sessions vary each day to create an enriching and stimulating environment for the animals - they never know what is going to happen next. Along with these sessions are the other duties like food preparation and distribution, assisting veterinarians with medical examinations, keeping the animal habitats clean and safe, observing the animals and documenting behavior and maintaining the health and diet records. Sometimes trainers may travel to the other parks and to meetings and conferences, but it is not a large component of the position. An animal trainer's job is one of the most visible and desired jobs in a zoological park, it is also one of the most rigorous. Trainers must perform in front of large audiences, being entertaining and enthusiastic each time. They spend many hours in 55°F water and free dive regularly to 35 feet (10.7 m), they lift and move 50 lb (22.7 kg) buckets throughout the day. They must also be patient and consistent when working with the animals. They can be scheduled to work at any time and day of the week and they work outdoors in all types of weather.