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Hunted Facts on mammals
- Most mammals are covered with hair or fur, and most have specialized teeth that help them to cut or chew their food.
- Mammals include some of the most familiar members of the animal kingdom, such as cats, dogs, elephants, and whales, and also human beings—a species that now dominates life on earth.
- The most successful mammals in this environment are ruminants—hoofed species such as buffaloes and antelope—which have a highly specialized digestive system that has evolved to break down cellulose, a tough substance that forms the walls of plant cells.
- Placental mammals are one of three major groups of living mammals.
- Mammals themselves are part of a larger tetrapod group called the Synapsida.
- View the Paleocene Mammals page for information about the archaic mammal species that lived between 65 and 55 million years ago.
- Mammal is an animal that feeds its young on the mother's milk.
- Mammals are important not only to people but also to the whole system of life on the earth.
- Mammals that eat flesh, which is easy to digest, have a fairly simple stomach and short intestines.
- Phylogenetically, the Mammalia are defined as the last common ancestor of monotremes (e.g., echidnas) and therian mammals (e.g., hedgehogs), and all of this last common ancestor's descendants.
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