Mammal vocabulary

Question 1

the milk-producing gland of women or other female mammals.

Answer 1

Mammal glands

Question 2

a body partition of muscle and connective tissue; specifically

Answer 2

Diaphragm

Question 3

dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat

Answer 3

Endothermic

Question 4

any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals

Answer 4

Hair

Question 5

a narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth, adapted for cutting. In humans there are four incisors in each jaw.

Answer 5

Incisors

Question 6

a pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars of a mammal, often greatly enlarged in carnivores.

Answer 6

Canines

Question 7

a grinding tooth at the back of a mammal’s mouth.

Answer 7

Molars

Question 8

Reproduction with two parents

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Sexual Reproduction

Question 9

a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.

Answer 9

Placenta

Question 10

Fetal development period from the time of conception until birth. For humans, the full gestation period is normally 9 months. The word “gestation” comes from the Latin “gestare” meaning “to carry or to bear.

Answer 10

Gestation Period

Question 11

The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals, extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.

Answer 11

Anteaters armadillos sloths

Question 12

an insectivorous animal or plant.

Answer 12

Insectavors

Question 13

a gnawing mammal of an order that includes rats, mice, squirrels, hamsters, porcupines, and their relatives, distinguished by strong constantly growing incisors and no canine teeth. They constitute the largest order of mammals.

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Rodents

Question 14

a gnawing mammal of an order that includes rats, mice, squirrels, hamsters, porcupines, and their relatives, distinguished by strong constantly growing incisors and no canine teeth. They constitute the largest order of mammals.

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Rabbits Hares pikas

Question 15

By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, can only glide for short distances. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread-out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium.

Answer 15

Flying Mammals

Question 16

mammals that eat meat

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Carnivores

Question 17

snout. An animal’s long, protruding nose is often called a snout. The tricky part, though, is that not all long animal noses are called snouts. An elephant has a very long nose, but we don’t call it a snout, we call it a trunk.

Answer 17

Trunk nosed mammals

Question 18

are a widely distributed and diverse infraorder of carnivorous, aquatic, mammals, unable to survive on land. The group encompasses whales and marine and riverine dolphins, divided into 12 families and eighty-eight species

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Cetaceans

Question 19

marine animal

Answer 19

Manatees and dugongs

Question 20

The two major groups of living hoofed mammals are the Artiodactyla, or cloven-hooved mammals; and the Perissodactyla, or odd-toed mammals. The former is by far larger of the two groups, with over a hundred living species, including such familiar animals as sheep, goats, camels, pigs, cows, deer, and antelopes.

Answer 20

Hoofed mammals

Question 21

the chief bishop or archbishop of a province.

Answer 21

Primates

Question 22

Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials and placental mammals.

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Monotremes

Question 23

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals living primarily in Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic, common to many species, is that most of the young are carried in a pouch.

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Marsupials