Mammals

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• Mammals are warm blooded.

•   The temperature could be freezing cold

or boiling hot, but mammals’ bodies are built to maintain just about the same temperature all the time.

Warm blood lets the mammals be very active and live in a wide variety of places.

All mammals have fur or hair.

• Sometimes it's long hair covers their entire body

Sometimes it's very short hair or there are just a few strands.

Mammal Babies:

• Most mammal babies live inside their mothers before they are born, just like humans.

• When the baby is big enough, it comes out of its mother’s body.

  We all drink Milk!

• Even though some baby mammals are born different ways, they all drink milk that comes from their mothers' bodies. Baby pigs, dolphins, bats and elephants all drink milk!

• Because the babies rely on their mother's milk to live, the mammal mommies have to care for their young.  The length of time varies from a few weeks for mice to many years for humans!

• All mammals have backbones.

• All mammals, except some sea cows and sloths have seven bones in their necks.  This includes giraffes who have VERY long spines!  Their necks can be 6 1/2 feet long, but they're still made up of just seven bones.