MAMMALS

Domain Eukaryote

Kingdom Animals

Phylum Chordata

Mammals have a backbone

eat by ingestion.

Characteristics

• Body covered by hair.

• Secrete milk by mammary glands.

• They are endotherms.

Particular types of mammals

• Monotremes

• Marsupials

They baby stay into a marsupium

Mammals who are oviparous

Placentals

They have a placenta which connect uterus and embryo

When the baby born is stronger

Brain

• Is the most developed of all the animals.

• Potentiation of the memory.

• In intelligent mammals the cerebrum is larger relative to the rest of the brain.

Ability to learn

GLOSSARY

Mammals: mammiferi

Backbone: colonna vertebrale

Mammary gland: ghiandole mammarie

Endotherms: endotermi

Monotremes: monotremi

Marsupials: marsupiali

Uteros: utero

Embryo: embrione

Created by Beatrice Cavina & Maria Agnese Emiliani