mammals

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mammary glands

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

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diaphragm

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other vertebrates such as amphibians and reptiles have diaphragm-like structures, but important details

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endothermic

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accompanied by or requiring the absorption of heat.

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Hair

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

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Incisors

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

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Canines

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The domestic dog is a member of genus Canis that forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant carnivore

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Molars

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

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Placenta

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

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Gestation period

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The average length of human gestation is 280 days, or 40 weeks, from the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period

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Anteaters / Armadillos / Sloths

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The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals, extant today only in the Americas and

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Insectivores

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an insectivorous animal or plant.

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Rodents

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mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws

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Rabbits / Hares / Pikas

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used for any member of the Ochotonidae, a family within the order of lagomorphs, which also includes the Leporidae

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Flying Mammals

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Capable of or engaged in flight: The bat is a flying mammal. Situated, extending, or functioning in the air: a flying deck. a. Swiftly moving; fleet: played the difficult passage with flying fingers.

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Carnivores

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an animal that feeds on flesh

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Trunk-Nosed Mammals

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Transcript of Trunk-Nosed Mammals, Hoofed Mammals, and Cetaceans. There is only 1 mammal in the world that has a trunk, and that animal is

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Hoofed Mammals

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a diverse group of primarily large mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses and rhinoceroses

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cetaceans

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a widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales

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manatees

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At any given time, a manatee typically has no more than six teeth in each jaw of its mouth. Its tail is paddle-shaped, and is the clearest visible difference between manatees and dugongs; a dugong tail is fluked, similar in shape to a that of a whale.

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Primates

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A primate is a mammal of the order Primates.

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Monotremes

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

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Marsupials

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Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to these species is that most of the young are carried in a pouch