Classification
This kingdom contains mammals, insects, and even pangolins.
What is the animal kingdom?
This order is characterized by persistent gnawing behavior, as animals in this order have teeth that grow continuously
What is Rodentia (rodents)?
All mammals have these characteristics
What are fur, mammary glands (milk production), endothermic, live birth, three middle ear bones, etc.?
This common, widespread, large herbivore lacks incisors in the upper jaw
What is the white-tailed deer?
This allows one to distinguish feline tracks from canine tracks
What are a lack of claw marks?
This kingdom is neither plant, nor animal, nor fungus.
What is the Protist kingdom?
This order includes all canines and felines
What is Carnivora?
This marsupial can be found in Maine
The conical, dagger-like teeth used to puncture, hold, kill prey
What are canines?
These two ecosystem engineers both often visit wetland habitats
What are the North American beaver and moose?
The level of classification to which mammals all belong
What is a class?
This order includes moles and shrews
What is Insectivora?
This mammal has castor sacs which are harvested for certain colognes
What is the North American beaver?
This grouping of animals (by food preference) have pre-molars and molars that are usually flat, with cusps for crushing and grinding vegetation.
What is an herbivore?
This Maine mammal has been known to eat an astounding diversity of prey
What is the bobcat?
The phylum to which mammals belong
What is the Chordata phylum?
This mammalian order contains the tri-colored bat
What is Chiroptera?
This water-loving weasel produces a musk/odor considered worse than that of a skunk
What is the mink?
What is the rostrum?
This skull feature allows you to distinguish a red fox skull from a gray fox skull
What is the v-shaped temporal lines on the top of the skull (v. u-shaped temporal lines on the gray fox)?
The six kingdoms of living things
What are plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaebacteria and eubacteria?
This order contains rabbits and hare
What is Lagomorpha?
The large, 6-layered, dorsal region of the cerebral cortex that is unique to mammals and believed to be responsible for cognition and consciousness
What is the neocortex?
The skull of this animal has one obvious incisor on each side, a gap between the incisor and cheek teeth, and a tiny peg tooth behind each incisor
What is/are the snowshoe hare, New England Cottontail or Eastern Cottontail?
This skull feature is examined to determine how keen an animal's sense of hearing is
What is the auditory bulla (or bubble)?