Mammals

Mammals

Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young.

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hyena

Animals; Mammals

Any of several carnivorous mammals of the family Hyaenidae of Africa and Asia, which feed as scavengers and have powerful jaws, relatively short hind limbs, and coarse hair.

grizzly bear

Animals; Mammals

The brown bear of northwest North America, now considered a subspecies (Ursus arctos subsp. horribilis). Also called silvertip.

loris

Animals; Mammals

Any of several small, slow-moving, nocturnal prosimian primates of the genera Loris and Nycticebus of tropical Asia, having dense woolly fur, large eyes, and a vestigial tail.

mongoose

Animals; Mammals

A small carnivorous mammal with a long body and tail and a grizzled or banded coat, native to Africa and Asia.

The fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) is a small nocturnal fox found in the Sahara of North Africa. Its most distinctive feature is its unusually large ears. The fennec is the smallest species of canid in ...

platypus

Animals; Mammals

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of ...

echidna

Animals; Mammals

Either of two nocturnal, burrowing, egg-laying mammals of the genera Tachyglossus and Zaglossus of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea, having a spiny coat, slender snout, and an extensible sticky ...