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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.
2,954 Questions
What order do rabbits belong to?
A group of rabbits is called a "warren." (This is also the name for their home, a network of underground tunnels.)
The taxonomical group that rabbits belong to is "Leporidae."
What is the anatomy of a snow-leopard?
Snow leopards have strong muscles, good for leaping through the air. They also have a tail that is 3/4 the length of them, they use it for wrapping it around their noses when it gets cold, they also use for balance when hunting and jumping. Their thick fur also helps with the keep out the cold while their spots on them help with camouflage. That's the basics of the snow leopards anatomy.
Which animals take care of their young?
Kangaroos, Dogs, Cows, Deer, Birds, Cats, Mice, And so on.
All mammals.
Do other animals besides mammals have fur?
First Answer:
No. Fur (hair) is one of the requirements of being a mammal even if you shave every hair off your body. Every mammal is born with hair follicles, which makes them mammals. You might think that whales don't have hair on their body but they do have small hairs on their body. There are over 80 species of whales, and the hair is only visible in some. Whales have hair on their heads as fetuses, but they don't always keep it.
Second Answer:
Yes. Whales may have some form of hair at some point in their lives, but as such it is not "fur". If a hair follicle counts as fur, then human tail bones would count as tails.
There are also cat breeds that have no fur, and are also regarded as hairless.
Humans themselves have no fur, but hair, and there is a difference in type by some accounts, and certainly a difference in word usage.
Dolphins have no fur, nor could they be refered to as haired animals.
While such obvious characteristics as "furriness" or "hairiness" may help the layman identify a mammal, it is important to realize that there is no hard and fast easy rule.
For instance there is the classic joke of the professor who asked a young man to explain what set a mammal apart from other lifeforms. The young man said "They give milk and have fur.", to which the professor replied, "So does a coconut!"
Thus while some authorities go to great lengths to "find fur" or "find hair" on any animal that has been classified a mammal, it does not always work well, or at all. If one wishes to define a whisker as a hair, that is one's freedom, but one looks silly when presented with a catfish.
Or one can speak of some hair or fur at some part of the pre- or post-birth : shortly worn and quickly lost, much like a vestigial tail in a human fetus. This could make an animal able to be called "furry" or "hairy", but again, no more than you could call a human "tailed" for it's fetal tail or the coccyx (tail bone).
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How do marine mammals use echolocation?
They use it to find were they are going, such as the toothed whale or a blue whale. Hope this is useful! :D :) ;D
What mammal has the best long term memory?
It has been a long time myth that goldfish have the shortest attention span, but their memory can span up to three months and are even known to be able to recognize time. Hamsters are now being considered to have one of the shortest memory spans.
Do wolves live in Twin Falls Idaho?
Possibly. The Gray Wolf's range extends into Idaho, Washington, Montana, and Wyoming.
How many mammary glands are in a cat?
The mammary glands are located from the chest to the groin area in a cat. The mammary glands in cats are also known as dugs.
How many mammal families are there?
im not really sure but it's pretty dang close to 4,200 species!!! (:
addendum Most recent estimates have around 5500 species in 1200 genera.
The largest order is that of the rodents, followed by the bats.
What categorizes an animal as a mammal?
A mammal breathes air and has a backbone. (or if you want to be all sciency you can say that they are "vertebrates")
Hope this helped! I edited it from the last one which was most unhelpful! :)
bears are mammals. so a panda, being a type of bear is also a mammal.
Australia has around 25 species of seahorses. They include:
- Bullneck seahorse - Hippocampus minotaur - found in Southern NSW, and Bass Strait.
- Pygmy seahorse - Hippocampus bargibanti - from Queensland north to Japan.
- Collared seahorse - Hippocampus jugumus - which is only known from 1 specimen off Lord Howe Island
- Smooth seahorse - Hippocampus kampylotrachelos - usually found in Indonesia and the Timor Sea. Australian specimen is known from Ashmore Reef (WA).
- Low-crown seahorse - Hippocampus dahli - in coastal waters from Moreton Bay in southeast Queensland to Darwin.
- Flat-face seahorse Hippocampus planifrons - Shark Bay and Broome (WA).
- False-eyed seahorse - Hippocampus biocellatus - Shark Bay (WA) in shallow algae or weedy reef habitats.
- Short-head seahorse - Hippocampus breviceps - in gulfs of South Australia, as well as Bass Strait and Tasmania.
- Knobby seahorse - Hippocampus tuberculatus - Perth to Onslow (WA).
- Common seahorse - Hippocampus taeniopterus - Moluccan seas, Papua New Guinea, Darwin, tropical waters off the east coast (from about Brisbane north).
- Sad seahorse - Hippocampus tristis - Northern NSW, southern QLD and Lord Howe Island.
- Winged seahorse - Hippocampus alatus - Northern Australia from WA to Cape York and Papua New Guinea.
- Queensland seahorse - Hippocampus queenslandicus- Queensland coast (inner reef waters).
- Half-spined seahorse - Hippocampus semispinosus - believed to be off the northwest shelf of Australia.
- Eastern Potbelly seahorse - Hippocampus abdominalis - Eden to Newcastle NSW and New Zealand.
- Southern Potbelly seahorse - Hippocampus bleekeri - South Australia, Bass Strait and Tasmania.
- Zebra seahorse - Hippocampus zebra - Known only from a few specimens off the Queensland coast and Milne Bay Papua New Guinea.
- Monte Bello seahorse - Hippocampus montebelloensis - Only known from Monte Bello Island and Exmouth Gulf in WA.
- White's seahorse - Hippocampus whitei - Estuaries and harbours of NSW.
- High-crown seahorse - Hippocampus procerus -Southern QLD in algae reefs.
- West Australian seahorse - Hippocampus elongatus- Western coast north to Kalbarri.
- Hedgehog seahorse - Hippocampus spinosissimus - Unconfirmed in Australia, but definitely found in Sapeh Strait, Komodo.
- Northern Spiny seahorse - Hippocampus multispinus- NW Western Australia and Northern Territory, also known from Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
- Thorny seahorse - Hippocampus histrix - Widespread species (Japan to Indonesia and New Caledonia) but not officially confirmed in Australia.
- Eastern Spiny seahorse - Hippocampus hendriki - Great Barrier Reef, QLD.
- Western Spiny seahorse - Hippocampus angustus - Central Coast of Western Australia.
- Big-head seahorse - Hippocampus grandiceps -Known only from the QLD side of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
What mammals can sleep standing up?
Many animals sleep upside down.
Like for example ...
Bats, koalas, sloths, manatees (monkeys), goldfish (all sorts of fish), sea lions ( cetain- seals), leopards (in a certain way), snakes, (certain)
and all sorts such as bugs, insects, sea animals, and mammels. Who ever wrote the first answer needs to go back to sixth grade and learn what mammals are. Second manatees are not monkies. Goldfish are not mammals. Snakes are not mammals. Insects and bugs are not mammals. And mammals is not spelled with an e. As far as I know only one group of mammals routinely sleep upside down. At least on purpose. And those are bats, and their related species. Sorry to whoever wrote the first answer. I just couldn't let the glaring mistakes slide... Good luck with future answers.
Which mammals have a 9 month gestation period?
Many mammals carry baby for 9 months . Human beings are best and well known example having 9 month pregnancy period .
Both sharing and the refusal to share serve evolutionary purposes in various environments, so animals are known to do both. Some social animals share because sharing is necessary in order for a pack to stay cohesive. Both finding food and avoiding danger are done much more efficiently in a pack of animals, so it is important for social animals to maintain pack stability by sharing. However, more solitary animals share less because when one shares, he has less for himself. It is necessary for all animals to eat, and most wild animals need to eat as much as possible as frequently as possible to keep from starving. The balance between the need for sharing and the need for the refusal of sharing is at different levels among different animals. Typically, more primitive animals have little purposeful contact with others of the same species, and do almost no sharing. Mammals and birds typically have more contact with others of their own species, and share more. In some more solitary species, such as shrews, this is restricted to mothers giving food (milk) to the young. The siblings usually fight over milk and food, and adults usually fight each other over food and mates. In some more social species, such as wolves, sharing is strictly organized and well-kept. However, even in social species, there is some squabbling over resources, particularly between siblings (as in humans). Some animals, like humans and dogs, have been known to share with other species as well as with their own.
Sweat glands do not keep us warm. They secrete moisture through our skin which evaporates into the air cooling our skin and blood but moisture that does not evaporate and remains as liquid on the skin is not efficient in cooling.
Did woolly mammoths travel alone?
Like elephants today, the Woolly Mammoth were social animals, and the females lived in related groups or herds.
Until the male mammoth reached the age of three to four years of age, he also lived with this group of closely related females. At that age, he started exploring his world and left the group behind. For two to three years after he left the female herd, he may have lived with a nomadic band of other male like age mammoths. This was called a bachelor herd.
Males were not usually related to each other in the bachelor herd, and came and went as they chose. As the males reached the age of 20, they no longer associated with herds of either sex unless it was time to breed.
it's a mix between a donkey and a zebra
i went to a zoo and they had one.....i fed it some food
What kind of mammal is a rodent?
Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterized by two continuously-growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing. Common rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, chipmunks, gophers, porcupines, beavers, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, chinchillas
They adapt in a number of ways:
-- by camouflage (which is blending into an environment)
-- with monocular or binocular vision (M vision can see straight and sideways, B vision can only see straight but far away, and provides depth perception up close).
-- by hunting when their predators are not hunting
-- by using the herd or pack instinct
What are some mammals that humans eat?
The diets of mammals vary. Any given mammal eats one or more than one of the following: leaves, grasses, sedges, bark, fruit, wood, seeds, nectar, poolen, sap, honey, meat, eggs, bones, fish, arthropods, other invertebrates, carrion, juveniles of their own species, blood, mucus, faeces, fungi, or clay.
Are humans most intelligent mammals?
Many people argue that dolphins are the smartest mammal.-You've got to admit that has a point, they don't go to work, pay taxes, have to buy and maintain cars - just swim around and sunbathe in the ocean all day -seems pretty smart to me !
Are amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals all in the same class?
No, not in a straight forward traditional classification sense...
Amphibians = class Amphibia
Reptiles = class Reptilia
Bird = class Aves
Mammals = class Mammalia
They can be categorized all together in the "superclass" Tetrapoda.
