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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walrus

Animals; Mammals

A large gregarious marine mammal related to the eared seals, having two large downward-pointing tusks and found in the Arctic Ocean.

mouflon

Animals; Mammals

A small wild sheep with chestnut-brown wool, found in mountainous country from Iran to Asia Minor. It is the ancestor of the domestic sheep.

Sloths are the six species of medium-sized arboreal mammals belonging to the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloth) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloth). Their diet consists mostly of buds, tender ...

hedgehog

Animals; Mammals

A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae and the order Erinaceomorpha. There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and New ...

koala

Animals; Mammals

The koala is a marsupial mammal which means it has a pouch and suckles its young. Koalas have grey fur and have large rounded ears on top of a big head. They are usually only approximately 60-85cm ...

armadillo

Animals; Mammals

Any of several omnivorous, burrowing, edentate mammals (family Dasypodidae), native to southern North America and South America and characterized by an armorlike covering consisting of jointed bony ...

skunk

Animals; Mammals

Any of several small, mostly carnivorous New World mammals of the genus Mephitis and related genera, having a bushy tail and black fur with white markings and ejecting a foul-smelling oily liquid ...