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Mammals
The world is home to 4260 named species of mammals. Mammals, or Mammalia are a class in the Phylum Chordata and the Subphylum Vertebrata. An animal is a mammal if, providing it is female, it can produce milk to feed its young.
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What are two types of mammals?
Mammals include any of various warmblooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans. They are characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young.
Some Mammals include:
- Humans
- Primates such as apes, chimpanzees, gorillas
- Dogs and others of the canine family, e.g. wolves
- Cats and other felines, e.g. lions, ligers, panthers
- Cows and other farm stock animals, e.g. buffalo, sheep, pigs, goats
- Horses and other equines such as donkeys and zebras
- Koalas and other marsupials such as kangaroos, koalas, Tasmanian devils, wombats, etc
- Marine mammals, e.g. whales, dolphins, porpoises
- Squirrels and other rodents, such as rats, mice, prairie dogs
- Bears, e.g. black bears, pandas, polar bears
- Monotremes (egg-laying mammals) which include just echidnas and platypuses
- Hippopotamuses
- Rhinoceroses
- Insectivores such as moles, shrews and hedgehogs
- Flying mammals: bats
- Anteaters and armadillos
What is the largest organ of a mammal?
The skin is the largest organ in a dog's body. It has three major layers, the epidermis, the dermis, and subcutis. Other vital parts of the skin include skin appendages, the subcutaneous muscles and fat.
What mammal has the longest nerve cell?
The longest nerve cell in most mammals isthe sensory neuron that convey signals from the part of the body furthest from the head to the medulla.
Among mammals that live on land, the giraffe would have the distinction of having the longest at about 15 feet. But remember that whales are mammals, and while little is known about detailed whale anatomy it is likely that the sensory nerve that transmits sensation from the tail fin of the blue whale to the medulla would be tens of meters long, though it might be difficult to verify this by tracing the pathway of something so small for so far.
What are the two differences in the ways birds and most mammals reproduce and care for their young?
It differs in the way mammals and them birds.
Mammals feed from their breasts.
On the other hand birds go outside the nest to catch like slugs,worms,snails.
Calf is the Word used for the (very) Young of certain animals. A baby of one of those species.
You can't have a calf of a baby. It'll be like having a baby of a baby. Doesn't happen. A baby is a Young, sexually immature living thing. It can't reproduce.
Platypuses reproduce via sexual reproduction.
Platypuses reproduce by laying eggs, which hatch into young platypuses that initially feed off mothers' milk. The platypus is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, just like the echidna, and quite unique to Australia. Platypuses lay eggs in a chamber at the end of a burrow dug into a riverbank or next to a creek.
Their young, once hatched, drink milk from grooves on the mother's abdomen where it seeps from glands, rather than attaching to teats.
platypuses are strange in that way,there like mammals becaus thay nurse there young with milk but unlike mammals they lay eggs.
Water. Unless you haven't realized this animals don't have options other than water in the wild. Only humans make artificial drinks. They also drink the nectar of plants.
What is the state bird state flower and state mammal of Sydney?
Perth is a city in Australia, not a state. Therefore Perth cannot have a state bird, state flower, or state mammal.
Do female hyenas dominate the males?
Yes. Hyena communities, called clans, are headed by a female called the matriarch. All the other females in the clan have a distinct role in a hierarchy; just as there is only one matriarch, there is only one female hyena below the matriarch and above all other, and below her is a female hyena subordinate to the hyena beneath the matriarch and above all the others, and so on, until the lowest ranking female is reached-who is still superior to every male in the clan.
The reasons for female dominance are not surprising: female hyenas are larger, stronger, and more aggressive than males.
What is a non-placental mammal?
A mammal is an animal that gives birth to live young and suckles them. A non-mammal is an animal that is born in an egg and does not drink milk from its mother. For example, a bird is a non-mammal because it is born from an egg and does not drink milk. But, there are some exceptions. The duck-billed platypus is one. The platypus is a mammal that suckles its young, but lays eggs!
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.
What mammal has the best hearing?
African elephants are the animal that can hear the best over a long distance. However, most domesticated dogs have amazing hearing too!
What kind of wild animals live in the city?
Unfortunately, the city isn't a wild area, so there aren't any common wild animals. If you want to search up wild animals in the city, none of them would be very familiar, though wild cats tend to enter the cities many times, frequently... The only wild animal that is most commonly known in New York City would be the wild cats, and if you are living in an area around Virginia, I'd say sometimes, grizzly bears may strike. Near to the middle of the US, there would be mostly stray and/or wild cats, but if you are near a swamp, you might be lucky enough to find a very rare time of wild poisonous frogs! ;)
Which skeletal structures are similar among humans and other mammals?
Most simians have a similar skeleton to humans.
When they are in the wild they are usually brown but farm bred mink vary from white to nearly black.
Mink is a shade of brown.
Is rhinoceros is mammal or a bird?
A rhinoceros is a mammal. Birds are defined as winged, egg-laying vertebrates, who are bi-pedal (i.e they walk on two legs.)
What is the gentle mammal that belongs to order sirenia?
The order Sirenia includes only the Dugong and three or four species of manatees (the Dwarf Manatee may or may not be a separate species).
Which mammal has the most chromosomes?
Mammal King crab(a marine mammal if am not wrong) has 208 chromosomes.
Non mammal Hermit crab (since it doesn't 've warm blood)has 254 chromosomes.
In non mammal,a fern(a seedless vascular plant which also does not flower) OPHIOGLOSSUM has most number of chromosomes 768(389 pairs.)
What mammals are spelled with 6 letters?
Buffalo
Cheetah
Chicken
Dolphin
Gazelle
Giraffe
Gorilla
Hamster
Leopard
Muskrat
Octopus
Opossum
Panther
Penguin
Piranha
Raccoon
Unicorn
Vulture
What type of big fish live in the sea?
Lots of big fish live in the sea; sharks, ocean sunfish, tuna, swordfish, sailfish, groupers, and many more.
Aardvark, Angus cattle, antelope, Arabian horse, armadillo, Akita and Alaskan malamute are mammals. They begin with the letter a.
