Mammals - created from Mind Map

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Xenarthrta

Lagomorpha

Rodentia

Primates

Chiroptera

Insectivora

Carnivora

Artiodactyla

Perissodactyla

Cetacea

Sirenia

Proboscidea

Many members of this order do not have prominent teeth

Anteaters, armadillos, and sloths.

Have a double row of upper incisors.

Rabbits, hares, and pikas.

Tend to produce many young in each litter

Squirrels, marmots, chipmunks, gophers, muskrats, mice, and rats

Most are omnivores and have teeth suited for a varied diet.

Lemurs, tarsiers, larises, monkeys, gibbons, apes, and humans.

Only mammals that truly fly.

Bats.

Usually small animals with a high metabolic rate.

Shrews, hedgehogs, and moles

Most are skilled hunters with strong senses of sight and smell.

Dogs, cats, raccoons, bears, hyenas, otters, seals, and sea lions.

Ungulates with an even number of toes.

Deer, cattle, giraffes, pigs, and camels.

Ungulates with an odd number of toes.

Horses, zebras, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.

Fish-shaped bodies with forelimbs modified as flippers.

Whales, dolphines, and porpuses.

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

Manatees and dugongs.

Nose that is modified into a long, boneless trunk.

Elephants and mammoths.