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
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