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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Native to Australia, the wombat is the largest burrowing animal in the world. It is a solidly built marsupial with strong legs and claws for burrowing. Its fur is soft and silky with black patches ...

hyena dog

Animals; Mammals

A powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area.

kinkajou

Animals; Mammals

A brownish, arboreal mammal (lat. Potos flavus), of Central and South America, having a prehensile tail, related to the raccoon and coati.

pangolin

Animals; Mammals

An African and Asian mammal that has a body covered with horny overlapping scales, a small head with elongated snout, a long sticky tongue for catching ants and termites, and a thick, tapering tail.

shrew

Animals; Mammals

A shrew or shrew mouse (family Soricidae) is a small mammal classified in the order Soricomorpha. True shrews are also not to be confused with West Indies shrews, treeshrews, otter shrews, or ...

stoat

Animals; Mammals

A small carnivorous mammal of the weasel family that has chestnut fur with white underparts and a black-tipped tail. It is native to both Eurasia and North America and in northern areas the coat ...