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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 is the opposite of a mammal?
There is no "opposite" of mammals, only different life forms, such as reptiles (cold-blooded, egg-laying) or insects (very dissimilar) or bacteria (not multicellular).
Mammal is a classification, within a group of many other classifications, with their own distinct characteristics. Some major characteristics like being warmblooded or being a vertebrate could be the reverse, but the animals would still share many characteristics. Therefore there is no opposite to the term.
Egg laying animals are known as oviparous.
What rainforest do river dolphins live in?
It lives around: South asia, southeast asia, East asia, central, and south america.
It is endangered in pakistan, near the indus river.
the people had overfished, polluted their habitat, and had acciendents during heavy river traffic.
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Most people believe in most stuff but i believe he is a half ape half human with a 15 sized foot who knows
What are the only native New Zealand mammals?
There are only two mammals native to New Zealand that live on land. They are the short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculatus/pekapeka) and the long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus).
There used to be another one, the Greater short-tailed bat, but it is thought to be extinct.
Any other mammals that are native to New Zealand are marine mammals. The only native New Zealand land mammal is the bat (pekapeka).
What do you call a mammal without top teeth?
There are no mammals entirely missing their top teeth. Mammals such as ruminants are missing the upper front teeth. These animals include cattle, bison, buffaloes, giraffes, deer, pronghorns, antelopes, sheep, and goats. Camels and llamas are also considered ruminants, but they are not missing their upper front teeth. Some mammals, such as monotremes, are missing teeth altogether.
What are the 4 characteristics shared by all mammals?
I think there is more than 4.
These charactheristics only mammals have:
1. Only mammals(female) produce milk to feed their young. Milk is produced in the mammary glands, and it is from here mammals have gotten their name.
2. The lower jaw in mammals is a single bone on either side. In all other vertebrates there are more than one bone on each side of the jaw
3.The mammal middle ear, and only the mammal middle ear, contains 3 bones. The Stapes or (Stirrup), Incus or (Anvil) and the Malleus or (Hammer)
4.In mammals the main artery leaving the heart curves to the left becoming the aortic arch. In birds it curves to the right and in all other vertebrates there are more than one main artery leaving the heart.
5.Mammals have a diaphragm. A sheet of muscle and tendon that separates the body cavity into two sections. Heart and lungs before/above, liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines, etc, behind/below. No other animal has a diaphragm.
6.No other animal has hair in the same form as mammals, and all mammals have some hair at least at the beginning of their lives - baby whales and dolphins are born with a moustache.
And then there are several more than mammals share with other groups, like verterbrae and that mammals are warm blooded, and that mammals have lungs to breathe air
All mammals are warm blooded,
All mammals are air breathers
Mammals give live birth
Every mammal is a vertebrate.
Which is the Largest mammal which looks like a fish but is not a fish?
the largest fish is a whale shark that is a type of shark (not whale). it can grow as long as 46 feet and weigh up to 15 tons!
Are arctic foxes related to dogs or cats?
Some breeds of dog (such as the Chihuahua) are derived from foxes, rather than wolves.
Mammoths had too many adaptations to list. However, I can tell you about some of the adaptations they had to survive in cold climates.
1. Mammoths had a large mass, in most cases larger than modern elephants. The more mass an animal has, the less heat and energy it loses to keeping warm.
2. Small ears helped to conserve heat.
3. Thick fur and a layer of fat served as effective insulation to keep mammoths warm.
How are mammals different from all other animals?
Mammals r the group of animals which give birth 2 their young once directly ,not in the form of egg & they feed their young once their own milk ie from their breasts milk made inside their body
What is the name of the first mammal in space?
this is all i only know there was the first monkey and the first dog in space.
What are the main characteristics that separate mammals from all other animals?
The 5 defining characteristics of a mammal are; mammillary glands(glands that make milk) , hair/fur, muscular diaphragm(muscle used to breath) , auditory obssicles(three ear bones) and denary (solid jaw and teeth) bird are hot blooded birds are not mammals nurse young birds nurse young not just from a teat P.S. I am a student studying zoology so I know that for a fact that is the 5 defining traits of mammals
Is a worm an insect or a mammal?
Worms are an obsolete taxon Vermes. They vary in size from microscopic to over a metre in length for certain marine worms, the African giant earthworm can be over 6 metres in length.
Segmented worms are known as Annelida but there are over a dozen phyla.
They are invertebrates but the term is also used for certain types of amphibians.
Fastest land mammal in the world?
Cheetah
Cheetah reaches a maximum speed of 120 kilometers an hour and the smaller Utah raptor (there is an unidentified Utah raptor twice as big) reaches 125 kilometers an hour. so cheetah is not the fastest animal ever! ! ! ! !
My opinion is that orthopads (spiders, and dust-mites) have the most eyes than any other animal on the planet Earth.
What are some kinds of zebras?
Zebra's are found in the wild on the continent of Africa. They are distinctly recognized by the vertical White and Black stripes in their body.
There are 3 distinct subspecies of Zebra's. They are:
a. The Plains Zebra
b. The Grevy's Zebra
c. The Mountain Zebra
What is the biggest mammal under water?
Depends on what you mean by breathe underwater.
No mammal can breathe unaided underwater.
Us humans can kinda-sorta breathe underwater by using technology to bring some surface conditions(=breathable air) with us into the depths.
We have to use snorkels or scuba gear, but we still win.
Although squirrels can not fly, there is one specific breed that has loose flabs of skin that they stretch out with their arms to levitate when they jump. These are called Flying Squirrels. Most squirrels cannot do that. But technically, squirrels cannot fly.
How do seals make breathing holes?
Unlike a fish, a seal cannot breath underwater, so it must come to the surface and into the air to breath. When the surface of the water is covered with ice, seals still need air, and they must break through to reach it. Since breaking thick ice isn't easy, they tend to use the same holes over and over.
