Mammals

The milk-producing gland of women or other female mammals.

A dome-shaped, muscular partition separating the thorax from the abdomen in mammals. It plays a major role in breathing, as its contraction increases the volume of the thorax and so inflates the lungs.

Dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat.

Any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals.

A narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth, adapted for cutting.

A pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars of a mammal, often greatly enlarged in carnivores.

A grinding tooth at the back of a mammal’s mouth.

The production of new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types.

A flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.

For mammals the gestation period is the time in which a fetus develops, beginning with fertilization and ending at birth. The duration of this period varies between species.

The superorder, Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals, extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.

A carnivorous plant that eats insects.

Rodents are mammals of the order Rodentia, characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

The group that these mammals are in is called, “Lagomorpha”.

Vertebrate covered with hair, with forelimbs converted into wings by means of a membrane connecting the fingers, allowing it to fly.

An animal that feeds on flesh.

A persons or animals body apart from the limbs and head.

A part of the foot of an ungulate animal, especially a horse.

A marine mammal of the order Cetacea ; a whale, dolphin, or porpoise.

The only marine mammal herbivores.

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates.

Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials and placental mammals.

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals living primarily in Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic, common to most species, is that the young are carried in a pouch. (Kangaroo)