Post on 19-Jan-2016
What is a mammal?
• Mammals are animals that use lungs to breathe air, produce milk, are warm-blooded, vertebrates and are covered in hair.
Vertebrates
• Mammals are vertebrates, which means that they all have backbones (spines).
All mammals have hair or fur
• Sometimes it's long hair covers their entire body, other mammals have short hair or just a few strands.
Mammals under water
• Even mammals that swim under the water (like whales and dolphins) have hair.
Its hard to find it! Whales have fine hair on the lips.
Mammals are warm blooded.
• The temperature could be really cold or very hot, but mammals’ bodies are built to maintain just about the same temperature all the time.
Believe it or not!
• Mammals are the animal class that people belong to.
Bats
• Yes a bat is a mammal, it has wings and it’s not a bird.
Mammal Babies: all drink Milk
• Baby mammals are born different ways, but they all drink milk that comes from their mothers' bodies. Baby pigs, lions, dogs, dolphins, bats and elephants all drink milk!
Mammal mothers
• The mammal mothers have to care for their young.
Teeth
• People have "milk teeth“, animals too.
• Except anteaters, they don’t have teeth at all!
Special mammals (anteaters)
• There are, however, a few mammals (like the duckbilled platypus and the spiny anteater) who lay eggs like a bird!
They are a lot of different mammals