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Mammals Around Us

Mammals Around Us. Miss Gamble’s Third Grade Class *~Taking a look at the mammals around us!~*. Large Mammals. There are numerous large mammals in the world. Some large mammals live in water and some live on land. The largest water mammal is the Blue Whale.

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Mammals Around Us

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  1. Mammals Around Us Miss Gamble’s Third Grade Class *~Taking a look at the mammals around us!~*

  2. Large Mammals • There are numerous large mammals in the world. • Some large mammals live in water and some live on land. • The largest water mammal is the Blue Whale. • The largest land mammal is the African Elephant. The Blue Whale lives in water and is the largest mammal on Earth. The African Elephant is the largest land mammal on Earth today.

  3. Small Mammals • The smallest mammal on Earth is the pygmy shrew and the bumblebee bat. • The pygmy shrew weighs 1.2-2.7 grams. • The bumblebee bat weighs about 2 grams. • That is incredible tiny compared to the Blue Whale (weighs 120 tons) and the African Elephant (weighs 6 tons). The Pygmy Shrew The Bumblee Bat

  4. The Fastest vs. The Slowest • The slowest mammal is the sloth. • The sloth averages less than 1 mph. • That is extremely slow compared to the cheetah! • Sloths sleep about 15 to 18 hours each day, hanging upside down. • These mostly-quiet mammals live in the tropical rain forests of South and Central America. • The fastest mammal is the Cheetah. • The Cheetah can run up to 65 miles per hour! • They live for about 10 years out in the wild. • Cheetahs are an endangered species as well.

  5. The Tallest of Them All • The giraffe is the tallest mammal on the planet. • The giraffe stands up to 19 feet tall! • A baby giraffe, called a calf, is 6 feet tall when it is born! • The giraffe has an extremely long neck and its front legs are slightly longer than its back legs. • Giraffes can also go for days without water.

  6. Marsupials Kangaroo • Marsupials are mammals that have pouches. • Such animals can be kangaroos, koala, and a wallaby. • They carry their young in the pouches until they are fully developed enough to come out. • Joeys (kangaroo babies) are the size of a lima bean at birth and stay in their mother’s pouch for 8 months. Koala Wallaby 

  7. Monotremes • Monotremes mammals are primitive egg-laying mammals. • There are 3 species of monotremes. • Those 3 species are the duck-billed platypus and two spiny ant eaters, or echidnas. The Duck-billed platypus The Short-Beaked Echidna

  8. Placental • Placental mammals are mammals whose young are born at a relatively advanced stage. • Humans are considered a placental mammal. • Most mammals today are considered placental mammals.

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