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Click on "Mammals"
1. What three characteristics
do mammals have that no other animals has?
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2. Mammal hair is made of:
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3. Name four functions of mammal hair:
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4. What is diphyodonty?
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5. The Class Mammalia contains _____________ orders and about _____________
species.
6. Note that Animal Diversity Web divides mammals in the three subclasses. What
are the subclasses and what kind of animal goes into each?
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Marsupials
7. American Maruspials belong
to what order? ________________________________________
8. What is the largest order of marsupials? ________________________________________
9. Bandicoots belong to what order? ________________________________________
10. How are wombats and koalas alike? ________________________________________
11. Which order of marsupial includes the cuscus? ________________________________________
12. What do Koalas eat? ________________________________________
13. What are the tails of kangaroos used for? ________________________________________
14. Kangaroo mothers are often taking care of three offspring in various stages
of development. How does the mother take care of three babies with only one
pouch? ________________________________________
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Placentals
15. Animals in the Order
Insectivora eat ______________________
16. Which sense is used the least in insectivores ________________________________________
17. Find under Insectivora, the species name of the star-nosed mole? ______________________________
Why is it called "star-nosed"? ________________________________________
18. What is a distinguishing feature of the elephant shrew? ________________________________________
19. Go to the order Chiroptera and find the family that false vampire bats are in. What is a noseleave? _________________________________ What is a tragus? ________________________________________
20. What is the smallest
primate? ________________________________________
21. What is the difference between new world monkeys and old world monkeys?
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22. Write the classification system for a Chimpanzee:
Kingdom ____________________
Phylum ____________________
Subphylum ____________________
Class ____________________
Order ____________________
Family ____________________
Genus ____________________
Species ____________________
23. The eastern cottontail
rabbit is in the Order ________________ and the Family ____________________
24. How does a pika differ from other Lagomorphs? _____________________________________________
25. How many different families are listed under the Order Rodentia? _________
26. Under Order Rodentia, find the Family Hystricidae. What animals are in this
group: _______________
27. Cetaceans are divided into two suborders: Mysticeti which are _________________________
and the Odontoceti _____________________________ .
28. What do baleen whales feed on: _________________________
29. Name three animals in the order Delphinidae: ______________________________________
30. What is the common name for the following cetaceans' scientific name. (They
are all in the Family Delphinidae)
Sousa teuszii _____________________________
Cephalorhynchus eutropia _____________________________
Lagenorhynchus acutus _____________________________
Orcinus orca _____________________________
Lagenorhynchus obscurus _____________________________
31. Under order Carnivora, the Family Felidae (for cats) is divided into 3 subfamilies.
List the subfamilies and the animals found in each.
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32. What family do you find polar bears in? ___________ What genus? ________________________
33. What do Sirenians eat? __________________________________
34. Artiodactyls contain about ________ species divided into ________ families
35. With the Order Artiodactyla, give an example of a member of each of the
following families:
Camelidae ______________________________
Giraffidae ___________________________________
Hippopotamidae _________________________________
Cervidae _________________________________
Bovidae _________________________________