Mammals dilan altinerlielmas9/24/2023 ![]() We eat them, ride them, keep them as pets, makes clothes out of them, hunt other mammals with them and use them as substitutes for ourselves in scientific (particularly medical) research. They fascinate and horrify us at the same time! Mammals are friendly or fierce, cuddly, cute and/or awesome – depending on which ones you look at. Elephant showing its big ears on Masai Mara savannah KenyaĮlephants and Whales, Pigs, Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Cats, Hamsters, Rats and of course Human beings (that’s you and me) are all mammals. Large, warm-blooded, four-limbed vertebrates whose females produce milk (see What is a Mammal). You can see them easily – and perhaps most importantly you are one. While even Molluscs with a mere 85,000, still outnumber any 3 groups of vertebrates put together. Invertebrates – of course – have groups with huge numbers of species that outnumber all the vertebrates put together: Arachnids, with a 100,000 species and insects with 1,000,000. Three other groups of vertebrates out-number them right now: ![]() Mammals are in fact not the most speciose animal group on the planet. Though taxonomists are still arguing and species are still being found. ![]() ![]() There are about 6,399 species of mammals known on this planet at the moment. Mammals are the dominant life form on this planet at the moment, at least from a human perspective. 1 Fun & Interesting Facts About MammalsĬhances are – if you see an animal – it’s a mammal. ![]()
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