16.2 16.3 Flashcards

1
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Designed for digging holes and eating ants and termites

A

Ardvark

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2
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The largest living land animals

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Elephants

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3
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Special elephant tooth

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Tusks

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4
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Aquatic dugongs and manatees are called this because they graze like cows

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Sea cows

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5
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Sea cow with forked tales

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Dugongs

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6
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Larger than the dugong

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Manatee

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7
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Has a long sticky and is spiny

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Echidna

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8
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Mammal that Lays eggs and lives in the water

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Platypus

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9
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Means little Armourd one

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Armadillo

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10
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Spend most of their time hanging in the trees with their long curved claws

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Sloths

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11
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Has long claws and long forelimbs and consumes thousands of ants

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Anteater

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12
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Active during the day time

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Diurnal

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13
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Active during the night

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Nocturnal

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14
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Scaley anteater

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Pangolin

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15
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Pouched animals

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Marsupials

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16
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The pouch on marsupials

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Marsupium

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17
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The largest marsupial

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Kangaroo

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18
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Marsupial that likes to play dead

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Opossum

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19
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One of the best diggers of the mammals

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Wombat

20
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Eats only the bids and leaves of the euckilyliptus tree

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Koala

21
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The banded ant eater

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Numbat

22
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Eats insects

A

Incectivorous animals

23
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Mammals that eat inscects

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Incetivors

24
Q

Smallest mammals

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Shrews

25
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Incectivore that is covered in spines that lack barbs

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Hedgehog

26
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Inscectivor that lives mostly underground

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Mole

27
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The only flying mammals

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Bats

28
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Marine mammals that make up the order cetatia

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Whales

29
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Whales that have comblike structures to filter food

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Baleen whales

30
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Comb like structures in whales

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Baleen

31
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The world’s largest animal

A

Blue whale

32
Q

Include sperm whales killer whales dolphins and porposes

A

Toothed whales

33
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Whale that may be as long as19m and weigh as much as 50000kg

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Sperm whales

34
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One of the most intelligent mammals

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Dolphins

35
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Confused with dolphins because they look similar but has not a baked nose

A

Porpoise

36
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Other wise known as killer whales

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Orcas

37
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Have 5 fingers and toes

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Primates

38
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Primates without tails

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Apes

39
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The largest of the apes

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Mountain gorrila

40
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The smallest ape

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Gibbon

41
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Characterized by long orange hair and a large sad looking face

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Oragatan

42
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One of the most intelligent apes

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Chimpanzee

43
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Most familiar primates with tails

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Monkeys

44
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Monkeys that live in in South america

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New world monkeys

45
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A tail that is designed for grasping objects

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Prehensile tail

46
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Monkeys that live in Africa and asia

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Old world monkeys

47
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Special kind of primates that live in madagascar

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Lemur