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Mammals are vertebrates – they have what??

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Backbones! (Vertebrates) Mammals also nourish their young with milk, are warm-blooded, and have hair!

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What are mammals that have a pouch to enclose their young called?

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Marsupials

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Mammals that lay eggs are called?

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Monotremes

(the duck-billed platypus is one)

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What is the fastest mammal?

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Cheetah (60-70 mph = 97-110 kph)

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What is the loudest mammal?

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The Blue Whale (Howler Monkeys are 2nd!)

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Carnivores are meat eaters, omnivores eat plants and meat, and insectivores eat insects. What does a herbivore eat?

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Herbivores are plant eaters!!

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Mammals evolved about the same time that the first dinosaurs appeared. What was the time period?

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Triassic period (220 million years ago )

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Which is NOT a mammal?

Person – Dolphin – Ostrich - Koala

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Ostrich!

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Mammals are warm-blooded. They maintain a constant ______?

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Temperature!

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Acknowledgements:

Enchanted Learning

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/

Fun Facts about Mammals

http://www5.wittenberg.edu/academics/biol/courses/mammals/Fun_Facts.html

General Mammal Information

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/k/i/kit103/mammals.html

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B. Burkett, S. Herndon, J. Geanangel 2002