Mammal Characteristics
All mammals have a _____ brain.
What is complex?
The fastest mammal
What is the cheetah?
This mammal lives in North America and weighs between 180 to 1,300 pounds. It feeds on fruits, grasses, nuts, and fish, which they can catch in streams. It can also climb trees.
What is the grizzly/brown/Kodak bear?
A mammal that creates nests in trees and eats nuts, buds, and flowers.
What is the Eastern gray squirrel?
A mammal gives milk, meat, and cheese and is often subject in science and engineering experiments.
What is the cow?
Characteristic of a mammal. Maintains a nearly constant body temperature, usually above its surrounding environmental temperatures
What is warm-blooded?
The biggest mammal on Earth
What is the Antarctic blue whale?
A mammal that lives in South America. It is the largest rodent and can swim. It feeds on grains, melons, reeds, and squashes.
What is the capybara?
Largest mammal in North Carolina
What is the elk?
A mammal that is often used to haul carts, which can be used for agriculture, transport, and tourism. They are also used in equestrian sports.
What is the horse?
The two types of mammal hair/fur
What are insulating and protecting?
The smallest mammal
What is the Etruscan shrew?
A mammal that lives in Asia, characterized by its orange body, black stripes, and white belly.
What is the tiger?
Mammal that looks like a racoon and can be found in forests and on streams and ponds. Feeds on birds, insects, worms, and fruits.
What is the Virginia possum?
A mammal that is often used for herding, hunting, and retrieving. Also used by law enforcement to search for illegal substances and people.
What is the dog?
An animal that gives birth to its young alive, the young develop inside the parent (verb)
What is viviparous?
The slowest mammal on Earth
What is the three-toed sloth?
Mammal that feeds on leaves and twigs from Acacia, Mimosa, and apricot trees. Characterized by a long neck, yellow body, brown spots, and blue tongue.
What is the giraffe?
A mammal that lives in the Neuse and Trent Rivers and feeds on plants like roots, cattails, grass, and crops.
What is a nutria?
A mammal that has been used for centuries to plow fields and crops, as well as haul carts, boats, and machinery.
What is the oxen?
Name all four parts to the four-chambered mammal heart
What is the right atrium, left atrium, right ventricle, left ventricle?
Flying mammal examples
What is the flying squirrel, flying fox, bat, or sugar glider?
Mammal from Antartica. Feeds on penguins, krill, fish, seals, and penguins. Common name includes the name of another mammal.
What is the leopard seal?
A type of wolf that lives in forests, coastal praries, swamps, and marshes.
What is the Red Fox?
A mammal used to over trees, dig water holes, and fertilize land.
What is the elephant?