Mammals

Mammals

1. Xenarthrta

   • Many members of this order do not have prominent teeth
     • Anteaters, armadillos, and sloths.

2. Lagomorpha

   • Have a double row of upper incisors.
     • Rabbits, hares, and pikas.

3. Rodentia

   • Tend to produce many young in each litter
     • Squirrels, marmots, chipmunks, gophers, muskrats, mice, and rats

4. Primates

   • Most are omnivores and have teeth suited for a varied diet.
     • Lemurs, tarsiers, larises, monkeys, gibbons, apes, and humans.

5. Chiroptera

   • Only mammals that truly fly.
     • Bats.

6. Insectivora

   • Usually small animals with a high metabolic rate.
     • Shrews, hedgehogs, and moles

7. Carnivora

   • Most are skilled hunters with strong senses of sight and smell.
     • Dogs, cats, raccoons, bears, hyenas, otters, seals, and sea lions.

8. Artiodactyla

   • Ungulates with an even number of toes.
     • Deer, cattle, giraffes, pigs, and camels.

9. Perissodactyla

   • Ungulates with an odd number of toes.
     • Horses, zebras, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.

10. Cetacea

    • Fish-shaped bodies with forelimbs modified as flippers.
      • Whales, dolphines, and porpuses.

11. Sirenia

    • Torpedo-shaped herbivores that live in tropical seas, estuares and rivers.
      • Manatees and dugongs.

12. Proboscidea

    • Nose that is modified into a long, boneless trunk.
      • Elephants and mammoths.