Types of Mammals
Mammal Traits
Guess the Mammal
Mammal: Yes, No, Maybe So?
100

Mammals with arboreal ancestors (Example: monkeys)

Primates

100

Mammary glands allow mammals to do this

Nurse their babies

100

Largest mammal alive today

Blue whale

100

Nurse their young

Yes

200

Mammal whose young are kept in pouches

Marsupials

200

Most mammals are born this way

Live

200

These mammals make up 40% of all mammal species, including rats, mice, etc.

Rodents

200

Hairless

No

300

Formal name of hooved mammals

Ungulates

300

All mammals have this on their body, even if only a very little

Hair

300
The only mammal capable of sustained and true flight

Bat

300

Lays eggs

Maybe

400

Formal name for egg-laying mammals

Monotremes

400

Most mammals maintain constant body temperature; in other words, they are this

Warm-blooded

400

This ungulate has been used as a means of transportation and labor for thousands of years

Horse

400

Temperature regulated by environment

No

500

Formal name for mammals who have adapted to aquatic life

Cetaceans

500

Formal word for "gives birth to live young"

Viviparous

500

Venomous mammal who can pick up electrical signals given off by the muscles of its prey

Platypus

500

Carnivores

Maybe