Characteristics of Mammals
All mammals have back bones.
What are vertebrates?
Mammals that eat flesh (meat).
What is a carnivore?
A mammal that lays eggs.
What is an echidna? What is a platypus?
The fastest land animal on earth.
What is a cheetah?
Mammals have usually have how many limbs?
What is four?
Mammals that eat plants.
What is a herbivore?
A gnawing mammal.
What is a rodent?
The kind of place an animal prefers to live in.
What is a habitat?
Mammals are designed to maintain a fairly constant body temperature, regardless of the outside temperature.
What is warm-blooded?
Mammals that eat mostly insects.
What is an insectivore?
A baby mammal that must finish developing in a special pouch.
What is a marsupial?
Relating to or resembling a dog.
What is a canine?
Finish the sentence: Some mammals lay eggs, some mammals give birth in a pouch, and some mammals....
What is a live birth?
An animal that hunts, kills, and consumes other animals.
What is a predator?
The largest group of mammals.
The padded cushion at the bottom of the horse's foot.
What is a frog?
Special milk-producing glands that female mammals have.
What is mammary glands?
Animals that eat other animals that have already died are called?
What are scavengers?
An Australian marsupial that gives birth in a pouch, but is not a kangaroo.
What is a wombat, koala or opossum?
The family group lions live in.
What is a pride?