Mammals are warm-blooded animals that nourish their young with milk. They come in a wide variety of forms, including people, apes, dogs, mice, elephants and pandas. Mammals have developed different adaptations to live in diverse environments, such as fur and fat to survive cold climates or sweating and panting to release heat in warm places. Mammals also have different diets and include herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and insectivores. They vary greatly in size, from the smallest pygmy shrew and bumblebee bat to the largest blue whale.
2. What is a
Mammal?
• Mammals are animals
that have hair, are warm-
blooded, and nourish
their young with milk
• Other animals don’t do
these things
• Some modern-day
mammals include people,
apes, dogs, mice,
elephants, pandas, and
many more.
3. Mammals are warm
blooded.
The temperature could be freezing cold
or boiling hot,
but mammals’ bodies are built to maintain just about the same
temperature all the time.
Warm blood lets the mammals be very active and live in a wide variety
of places.
4. More about
Mammals
•Polar bears live in very cold areas.
•Camels live in hot areas.
•Moles live under the ground.
•Bats live in caves and fly in the air.
•Dolphins live in the oceans.
•Fur and fat help protect mammals who
live in the cold.
•Mammals sweat or pant to release extra
heat if they live somewhere toasty.
5. The Different Types of
Diets
• There are four types of diets that mammals can
have. They can be:
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Insectivores
6. Herbivores
• Herbivores are plant eaters.
• Some herbivores are:
• beavers
• cows
• horses
• pandas
• sloths
• and others
7. Carnivores
• Carnivores are meat eaters.
• Some carnivores are:
• whales and dolphins
• dogs
• tigers
• lions
• and others
8. Omnivore
• Omnivores eat both plants and meat.
• Some omnivores are:
• People
• some bears
• and others
10. Fastest and
Slowest
• The fastest mammal
(also the fastest land
animal) it the Cheetah.
The cheetah runs
between 60 and 70
miles per hour.
• The slowest mammal is
the sloth. The sloth
moves less than 1 mile
per hour.
11. Biggest and
Smallest
• The biggest mammal also
known as the biggest animal
that ever lived on Earth is
the blue whale.
• The biggest land mammal is
the African Elephant
• The tallest mammal is the
giraffe
• The smallest mammals are
the pygmy shrew and the
bumblebee bat.
12. Loudest and
Fattest
• The loudest mammal is the
blue whale.
• The second loudest is the
howler monkey.
• The fattest mammal is the
blue whale who has thickest
layer of blubber, but the
ringed seal pups have the
greatest percentage of fat
(about 50%).
