A Medley of Mammals
The developing young of a placental mammal grows in a fluid sac containing this fluid.
What is amniotic fluid?
Sloths and anteaters belong to this family.
Whatare xenarthrans?
This is known as the largest rodent.
What is a capybara?
This ungulates are distinguished from other mammals by the presents of these.
What are hooves?
Beavers call this nest home.
What is a lodge?
These mammals are known for their ability to play dead.
What is an opossum?
A group of primates that do not have tails.
What are apes?
The slowest moving animal.
What is the sloth?
The bovid head structure that consists of a bony core surrounded by a hollow sheath of hardened skin is called this?
What is a horn?
What is a beaver?
These mammals feed mostly on eucalyptus leaves.
What are koalas?
The sirenian that has a forked, whale-like tail is known as this.
What is a dugong?
A bat creates a mental picture of its surroundings using this
What is echolocation?
A large group of bats are called this.
What is a colony?
This is the largest hopping mammal.
What is a kangaroo?
This is the general name for animals that chew the cud.
This is the only marsupial found outside Australia and its surrounding islands.
What is an opossum?
Because they reproduce by laying eggs, monotremes are these kind of animals.
What are oviparous?
These monkeys, which include baboons and macaques, are found in Africa and Asia have closely spaced, comma-shaped nostrils.
What are Old World Monkeys?
The tamandua is a type of anteater with this kind of tail that is capable of grasping things.
What is a prehensile tail?
The largest group of mammals.
What are rodents?
These hoofed mammals are one of Africa's most deadly animals.
What is the hippopotamus?
This is a pouchless marsupial that eats termites.
what is a numbat?
The pig-like Africa mammal that is the only member of the order Tubulidentata is this animal.
What is the aardvark?
The only flying mammals are part of the order Chiroptera
What are bats?
This mammal rolls into a ball when threatened.
What is an armadillo?
This is the tallest living mammal.
What is a giraffe?
The porcupine belongs to this group of mammals.
What is a rodent?
This is a monotreme own for its duck-like bill.
What is a platypus?
The Amur leopard, which lives around the far-eastern border between Russia and China, has been hunted to the point that scientists estimate that fewer than one hundred adults survive in the wild. The Amur leopard is an example of this.
What is an endangered animal?