Mammals
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What Are Mammals?
About All Mammals
Most mammals are the same. They have fur on their bodies, drink milk from their mothers, and eventually fend for themselves once old enough. Most mammals are born the same way: they are born from their mothers bodies. They form in their mothers belly, and come out once they get to big, kinda like humans. Although, some mammals aren't born from their mothers belly, but in eggs. These mammals are called monotremes. These animals are platypuses and the long-nosed spiny anteater. There is also a mammal that can fly! They're called bats. All bats can fly. It is possible to do this because of stretched out skin that allows them to fly. Kinda like bats, flying squirrels can fly. Although, they can't fly, they glide. They glide by using stretched out skin, like bats. Besides the flying and egg laying, all mammals are the same.
About Some Mammals
The Giraffe
Chimpanzees
They use tools like stick to get termites to eat, rocks to crack open nuts, and are one of the few mammals that have thumbs. They use them to climb up trees and escape predators.
Elephants
Elephants are the largest mammals to roam the Earth today. They use their giant noses called trunks to pick up food, like grass, tree branches, and fruit. Like other mammals, like bison, males huddle up together to protect the females and children. The males use their teeth to hit the predator, like lions, tigers, and jaguars
The Classes
7 Groups
Insectivores eat insects, hence the name. Ungulates have hooves, like horses, hogs, cows, giraffes, and deer. The hoof is actually a giant toenail. Seals are swimming mammals, who, unlike dolphins and whales, can go on land. Bats, as stated before, are the only mammals that can fly.
Whales and dolphins can also swim, but can't go on land, because they will be beached, and die. They are also called porpoises, and unlike fish, don't have gills, so have to come up above water, about every hour. Rodents are rats, beavers, mice, squirrels, and the biggest of all, the capybara. All rodents have big front teeth. The teeth is used to cut down wood. Carnivores are mammals that can eat meat, as said before. Other groups are marsupials, mammals that carry their young in pouches, like kangaroo, possums, and koalas, and primates, mammals that can walk, and are smarter, then most mammals. These includes humans, apes, and monkeys