MAMMALS

What is a Mammal?•Mammals belong to the class Mammalia• It includes 4,200 species.•Most dominant land animals on earth.

What makes an Animal a Mammal?

What are its Characteristics?

•Mammals have mammary glands.

What are its Characteristics?

•Mammals are endothermic or “warm-blooded.

What are its Characteristics?

•Mammals have hair or fur.• They are vertebrates

What are its Characteristics?

•Mammals have teeth and well-developed brains.

ELEPHANT CAT RABBIT

DOG PANDA WHALE

GIRAFFE CAMEL ZEBRA

KANGAROO

LION MONKEY

BEAR BAT RAT

HORSE PIG TIGER

How about you? Are you a Mammal?

Yes! Humans are mammals too!

Fun Facts!• Dogs only have sweat glands in their paws.• Cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear (humans have only 6). A cat can independently rotate its ears 180 degrees.

Fun Facts!• A whale's heart beats very

slowly. As slow as once every 6 seconds.

• Goat kids learn to stand within minutes of being born.

• Cows have red-green colorblindness.

• Horses can sleep both lying down and standing up

• Apes are not monkeys.