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VERTEBRATES ANIMALS
MAMMALS
By Carlos Cornejo, Manuel Redondo,
Manuela Lumbreras and Ane Cortázar
GENERAL
CHARACTERISTICS
They are vertebrate animals
They have fur
Most of them are viviparous
They feed their babies with mammary glands
They are the most evoluted vertebrates
THE BODY OF A MAMMAL
Head: The eyes have
Skin: mammal’s skin is moving eyelids, fleshy
covered in hair or fur. external ears and jaws with
teeth.
Trunk: has four limbs
with one to five toes
Mammary glands: They
at the end of each
have mammary glands use
one. Sometimes these
to feed their young.
have powerful claws.
Limbs: Most have four
Tail: can be prehensile limbs, except for
or used for balance. cetaceans, which do not
have rear limbs and their
front limbs have
transformed into flippers.
VITAL FUNCTIONS
NUTRITION, INTERACTION AND
REPRODUCTION
Nutrition
The digestive system of herbivores is
They can be carnivores,
longer than that of carnivores. This
herbivores or omnivores.
helps them get nutrients from plants.
Interaction
Mammals have the most There is excellent coordination
developed nervous system in the between external and internal
animal kingdom. stimuli.
Reproduction
They have internal Most of them
fertilisation. Gases and are viviparous
metabolic waste
are exchanged in
the placenta
SOME SPECIES
01 02 03
Ailuropoda melanoleuca, Erinaceus europaeus, known British Shorthair, is a well-
more known as panda as european hedgehogs known cat breed
CLASSIFICATION OF MAMMALS
Placental
Marsupials Monotremes
mammals
African elephant Red kangaroo Platypus
(Loxodonta africana) (Macropus rufus) (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
MONOTREMES
Oviparous Most primitive
EXAMPLES
Platypus Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna Australian echidna
(Ornithorhynchus anatinus) (Zaglossus attenboroughi) (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
MARSUPIALS
Premature birth Pouch
EXAMPLES
Eastern grey kangaroo Tasmanian devil Numbat
(Macropus giganteus) (Sarcophilus harrisii) (Myrmecobius fasciatus)
PLACENTAL MAMMALS
Non-premature birth Placenta
Humans Biggest group
INSECTIVOROUS TOOTHLESS
Long snout No incisive teeth
EXAMPLES
Star-nosed mole Brown-throated sloth
(Condylura cristata) (Bradypus variegatus)
RODENTS LAGOMORPHS
Incisve growing all
time
4 incisives 6 incisives
EXAMPLES
Capybara American pika
(Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) (Ochotona princeps)
CHIROPTERANS PRIMATES
Fly 5 fingers
EXAMPLES
Common vampire Common squirrel monkey
(Desmodus rotundus) (Samiri sciureus)
PERISSODACTYLA ARTIODACTYLA
Odd hoof Multiple of 2 hoof
EXAMPLES
Kiang Tompson gazelle
(Equus kiang) (Eudorcas thomsonii)
CARNIVORES PHILODATA
Sharp canine Scales
EXAMPLES
Fossa Giant pangolin
(Cryptoprocta ferox) (Smutsia gigantea)
CETACEANS SIRENIANS PINNIPEDS
Big Herbivores Carnivores
Beluga whale Caribbean manatee Leopard seal
(Delphinapterus leucas) (Trichechus manatus) (Hydruga leptonyx)
DERMOPTERA HYRACOIDEA
2 spieces 6 spieces
PROBOSCIDEA TUBULIDENTATA
3 spieces 1 spiece
DID YOU 03.
The scientific name “mammalia”
was input by
Carl Linnaeus in 1758
KNOW?...
01.
The mammals have the most Did you know that the first
04.
diversity around the world, because
hominitation of mammals
they are in all the earth, from pole to
pole
was on África about
5.000.000 million years
ago
Mammals are a group of animals
05.
The two most diversity group of
02.
that encompasses a wide variety
mammals are the rodents and
of creatures, from the huge blue
bats group because they have a
whale to the bat. Yet they all share
lot of types
a common characteristic.
HOMINIZATION Some examples of
mammals are:
The evolution of these from
synapsids was a gradual process that HUMAN CAT DOG BEAR
lasted approximately 100 million LAMB WHALE LION PIG
years between the Middle Permian PANDA LEOPARD
and the Middle Jurassic.
Video
Mammals
TRIVIA
QUESTION 1
Mammals have internal
fertilisation
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FALSE
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TRUE TRUE
QUESTION 1
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Mammals have internal
TRUE TRUE
fertilisation
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TRUE TRUE TRUE
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FALSE
TRUE TRUE TRUE
QUESTION 2
On the head are the eyes,
with moving ...
Eyelids
Teeth
Pupils
QUESTION 2
On the head are the eyes,
with moving ...
Eyelids
Teeth
Pupils
QUESTION 3
An example of a
monotreme is...
a) African elephant
b) Red kangaroo
c) Platypus
QUESTION 3
An example of a
monotreme is...
a) African elephant
b) Red kangaroo
c) Platypus
QUESTION 4
The evolution of these from ....
was a ... process that lasted
approximately ... million years
Primates, long and 105
Synapsids, gradual
and 100
Darwin, busy and 7
QUESTION 4
The evolution of these from ....
was a ... process that lasted
approximately ... million years
Primates, long and 105
Synapsids, gradual
and 100
Darwin, busy and 7
QUESTION 5
The two most diversity
group of mammals
a) the rodents and bats
b) dogs and cats
c) dolphins and whales
QUESTION 5
The two most diversity
group of mammals
a) the rodents and bats
b) dogs and cats
c) dolphins and whales
THANKS!
