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Mammals
Mammals
Dogs, cats, horses, duckbill platypuses, kangaroos, dolphins and whales are all mammals. What do all these animals have in common? All of these animals drink milk when they are a baby and have hair on their body. Do you like Mammals?
Animal Groups
Description (Which group do you like best?)
Details
egg-laying mammals (monotremata)
Playtypuses, echidnas. Generally regarded as the most primitive mammals since they lay eggs (like reptiles) and do not give birth to formed young.
Families: 2
Genera: 3
Species: 3
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marsupials or pouche mammals (marsupialia)
Includes kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, opossums, dunnarts, bandicoots, cuscuses
Families: 19
Genera: 83
Species: 295
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edentata
Some of the worlds most bizarre animals - anteaters, armadillos, sloths.
Families: 4
Genera: 13
Species: 29
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monkeys and apes (primates)
Includes lemrus, bushbabies, lorises, pottos, tarsiers, marmosets, tamarins, monkeys, apes, humans
Species: 180
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pangolins (pholidota)
Seven living species of mammal are included in the Pholidota, the pangolins or scaly anteaters.
Species: 7
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insectivores (insectivora)
Includes shrews, moles, golden moles, desmans, hedgehogs, moonrats, solenodons, tenrecs
Species: 375
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aardvark (tubulidentata)
Aardvark
Species: 1
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carnivores (carnivora)
Includes big and small cats, dogs, foxes, wolves, hyenas, bears, pandas, raccoons,weasels, stoats, badgers, skunks, otters,mongooses, civets.
Species: 230
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seals (pinnipedia)
Seals, sea lions, walruses
Species: 33
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colugos (dermopetera)
Also called flying lemurs.
Species: 2
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bats (chiroptera)
Includes flying foxes (fruit bats), vampires, and all other bats. (there are many here at the Science Castle)
Families: 18
Genera: 177
Species: 993
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rodents (rodentia)
Includesrats and mice, dormice, gerbils, beavers, squirrels, porcupines, chinchillas, pacas, voles, hamsters,chipmunks.
Species: 1700
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rabbits and hares (lagomorpha)
includes rabbits, cottontails, jackrabbits, hares, pikas.
Species: 80
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whales and dolphins (cetacea)
toothed whales, baleen, (whalebone) whales, dolphins, propoises.
Species: 78
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even-toed hoofed mammals (artiodactyla)
Includes hippos, pigs, peccaries, camels, llamas, giraffes, deer, chevrotains, gazelles, antelopes, cattle, sheep, goats.
Species: 220
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odd-toed hoofed mammals (perissodactyla)
horses, asses, zebras, rhinos, tapirs.
Species: 17
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hyraxes (hyracoidea)
bush hyraxes, tree hyraxes, rock hyraxes, dassies.
Species: 7
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elephants (proboscidea)
African and Indian elephants
Species: 3
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sea cows (sirenia)
Dugongs, manatees.
Species: 4
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scandentia
tree shrews, tupais, and dendrogales or tree squirrels
Species: 18
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