Mammals
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- What can mammals do that no oher class of animal can do?
- They can feed their babies with milk from their body.
- Mammals are ________ (body temp.)
- Warm-blooded
- Most mammals have well developed senses of ________ and _________.
- hearing and eyesight
- Scientists divide mammals into three groups or subclasses based on ________________.
- how they give birth
- Name the subclasses of mammals.
- Monotremes, marsupials, and placentals
- Which subclass of mammals is egg-laying? Give an example of an animal in this subclass.
- Monotremes Spiny echidna
- How many species are in the Monotremes subclass? Where do they live?
- three Australia and New Guinea
- Which subclass are pouch mammals?
- Marsupials
- Where do most of these animals live? Name one species that can be found in North America.
- Australia and New Guinea opossum
- How big are marsupials when they are born?
- They are very small, about the size of a jellybean.
- Name the subclass of mammals that carries her young in her body until they are quite well developed.
- placentals