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Mammals. By: Audrey Crayne And Kate Gray. Classification. Mammals are warm-blooded. Warm-blooded means to be able to change their body temperature by their selves. They are also vertebrates. Vertebrate means to have a backbone. Reproduce. Mammals give live birth.
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Mammals By: Audrey Crayne And Kate Gray
Classification • Mammals are warm-blooded. • Warm-blooded means to be able to change their body temperature by their selves. • They are also vertebrates. • Vertebrate means to have a backbone.
Reproduce • Mammals give live birth. • Only the Spiny Anteater and Duck Billed Platypus lay eggs. • Some mammals, like a kangaroo, carry their babies in their pouches if they have one • All mammals feed their babies milk after they are born.
Habitat • Mammals can live in any ecosystem in the world, because they are warm-blooded. • They can change their body temperature to warm if they are in a cold place and cold if they are in a hot place. • They can live in trees , water and any where else in the world.
What DoThey Eat and How? • Herbivore-Herbivores eat plants. Some examples are horses, pandas, beavers and more. • Carnivore- Carnivores eat meat. Some examples are dogs, lions , tigers and more. • Omnivore- Omnivores eat meat and plants. Some example are people, some kinds of bears and more. • Insectivore- Insectivores eat insect. Some examples are anteaters, aardvarks and more.
A Mammals Body • All mammals have hair or fur. • Most mammals have special teeth like molars and premolars. • Mammals breath with lungs.
Types of Mammals • Horses • Pandas • Sheep • Bats • Kangaroos • Koalas • And YOU are a mammal!
Other Important Information • Mammals are put in to 21 different groups. • There are about 4,500 to 5,000 different species of mammals. • The very first mammals appeared about 2,000,000 years ago in the middle of the Jurassic Period.
Questions • What do herbivores eat? • What do all mammals have? • What are the two things that all mammals are? • Where do mammals live?