Mammal notes: Notes on Family Mammalia and subgroups placental, marsupial, & monotreme with pictures
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This document provides an overview of the class Mammalia. It notes that mammals are warm-blooded, have hair or fur, and give birth to live young which they feed milk. It divides mammals into three kinds: placental mammals, marsupials, and monotremes. It provides examples of orders within each kind and some interesting facts about the largest, smallest, tallest and fastest mammals.
Mammal notes: Notes on Family Mammalia and subgroups placental, marsupial, & monotreme with pictures
- 1. Mammals PPT. by, Robin D. Seamon
- 2. Vertebrates: Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia 19 Orders Warm-blooded Have fur or hair Live births Feed their babies milk ~5,400 species
- 3. 3 KINDS of MAMMALS: Placental Mammal : mammals that have a placenta (umbilical cord from mother to unborn baby) 4 largest Orders below: Order Rodentia (rats, mice, small gnawing animals) NG Rat video Order Chiroptera (bats) LINK ; NG Bat video (play fishing bat) Order Carnivora (dogs, cats, bears… meat-eaters) NG Video (search wolves & grizzlies) (watch lions) Order Cetartiodactyla (deer, sheep, goats… whales) LINK ; NG Whale video
- 4. 2. Marsupial: Mammals that birth very small babies that live outside body in mother’s pouch until adolescence NG wallaby video 3. Monotreme: rare kind of mammal that lays eggs (duck-billed platypus, echidna) LINK
- 5. COOL FACTS: Smallest mammal: Kitli’s hognose bat- 1.14 inches long; 0.06 oz Largest mammal: Blue Whale- 190 tons LINK Tallest mammal: Giraffe- 20 ft. tall Fastest animal on land: Cheetah- 96 mph Thickest skin: rhinoceros- 2 inches thick!
- 6. Order Marsupialia (pouched animals) Marsupials Order Monotremata (egg-laying mammals) Monotremes
- 7. Flying Lemurs Elephant Shrews Hyracoidae Insectivores Tree Shrews Order Dermoptera (colugos or flying lemurs) Order Insectivora Order Hyracoidae
- 8. Order Primates Monkeys & Apes Order Carnivora Carnivores
- 9. Odd-toed Ungulates Elephants Order Perissodactyla (odd-toed hoofed animals) Order Artiodactyla (even-toed hoofed animals) Even-toed Ungulates Order Proboscidea
- 10. Order Rodentia (gnawing animals) Order Lagomorpha Rodents Rabbits, Pikas, & Hares
- 11. Aardvark Bats Order Edentata (toothless mammals) Sloths, Armadillos, & Anteaters Order Tubulidentata Order Chiroptera Order Pholidata Pangolins
- 12. Seals, Sea Lions, & Walruses Order Pinnipedia Order Cetacea Whales, Dolphins, & Porpoises Order Sirenia (dugongs and manatees) Sea Cows
- 14. ANSWERS:
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- 17. Animal SKULLS & PRINTS LINK The Wild Classroom LINK & VIDEO
- 18. RESOURCES: Pictures: chatt.hdsb.ca/~duncand/FOV1-000E9526/ (slide 1) http://www.the-parenting-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/free-virtual-worlds-for-kids-2.jpg http://www.stanford.edu/~jay/koalas/koala%20mums.jpg http://www.learnanimals.com/platypus/platypus-pictures.php http://www.deakin.edu.au/research/stories/images/platypus-babies.jpg Mammals Poster: http://www.nature-watch.com/mammals-poster-p-978.html?cPath=142_153&utm_term=Mammals+Poster&utm_source=Google+Base&utm_medium=Shopping+Portal&utm_campaign=Nature-Watch