Mammal Flashcards
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Mammary glands
a gland in a woman’s breast or in a female animal that produces milk
Diaphragm
a dome-shaped, muscular partition separating the thorax from the abdomen in mammals. It plays a major role in breathing, as its contraction increases the volume of the thorax and so inflates the lungs.
Endothermic
accompanied by or requiring the absorption of heat.
(of a compound) requiring a net input of heat for its formation from its constituent elements.
Hair
a thin threadlike growth from the skin of a person or animal
incisors
It is called subsection to a text that is inserted into another to explain something related to the first and with some grammatical autonomy. Paragraphs are marked with three signs
Canines (the teeth)
a pointed tooth incisors and premolars Between the of a mammal, Often Greatly enlarged in carnivores.
Molars
a grinding tooth at the back of a mammal’s mouth.
Sexual reproduction
the production of new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types (sexes). In most higher organisms, one sex (male) produces a small motile gamete that travels to fuse with a larger stationary gamete produced by the other (female).
Placenta
a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant euthanasia mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.
Gestation period
a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord
Anteaters, Armadillos, sloths
Xenarthra group
Insectivores
is a carnivorous plant that eats insects. An alternative term is entomology, which also refers to the human practice of eating insects. The first insectivorous vertebrates were amphibians.
Rodents
a small animal (such as a mouse, rat, squirrel, or beaver) that has sharp front teeth
Rabbits, Hares, Pikas
Lagomorpha group
Flying mammals
Bat, Grouping of all living beings with more or less complex organs, with which they move about and feed themselve
Carnivores
an animal that eats meat :
Trunk-nosed mammals
The body of a human or other vertebrate, excluding the head and limbs.
Hoofed mammals
hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot. artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate. placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot.
Cetaceans
The infraorder Cetacea includes the marine mammals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean ‘whale’. Its original meaning, ‘large sea animal’, was more general
Manatees and Dugongs
is a medium-sized marine mammal. It is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three species of manatees
Primates
A primate is a mammal of the order Primates. In taxonomy, primates include two distinct lineages, strepsirrhines and haplorhines.
Monotremes
Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials and placental mammals
Marsupials
Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals living primarily in Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic, common to most species, is that the young are carried in a pouch