Mammal
Recognising a Mammal
All mammals:
- Have a backbone under the skin
- Breath air
- Have hair on fur on their body at some point in their life
- Are warm-blooded, this means their body stays the same temperature even if the temperature around them changes.
- Give birth to live young (most)
- Are fed from their mother's milk
Not all mammals live on land though. As an example a whale is a mammal which lives in water - it needs to come up to the surface to breath air.
Did you know more than half of all mammal species are rodents [1], a group which includes squirrels, hamsters, mice and guinea pigs.
Mammals
The following animals are mammals:
- Armadillo
- Bactrian Camels
- Badger
- Bat
- Blue Whale
- brown bear
- Capuchin Monkey
- Capybara
- Cat
- Cow
- Deer
- Dog
- Dolphin
- Echidna
- Elephant
- Exmoor Pony
- Fox
- Goat
- Giraffe
- Guinea Pig
- Hamster
- Hedgehog
- Human
- Humpback Whale
- Jaguar
- Kangaroo
- Koala
- Lion
- Monkey
- Otter
- Panda
- Pig
- Platypus
- Polar Bear
- Rabbit
- Red Deer
- Rhinoceros
- Seal
- Sheep
- Squirrel
- Walrus
- Warthog
- Whales
- Zebra