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Least chipmunk. Northern pocket gopher. Ord's kangaroo rat. Singing vole. White-footed mouse. Hispid cotton rat. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
Zaniskari, by Eatcha. Red panda, by Mathias Appel. Cheetahs grooming each other, by Arturo de Frias Marques. Geoffroy's tamarin, by Charlesjsharp. European bison, by Charlesjsharp. Eurasian brown bear, by Charlesjsharp. Eastern chipmunk, by Rhododendrites. Sonoma chipmunk, by Frank Schulenburg.
A mammal (from Latin mamma 'breast') [1] is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia ( / məˈmeɪli.ə / ). Mammals are characterized by the presence of milk -producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three middle ear bones.
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.
The latter subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals (metatherians or marsupials), and placental mammals (eutherians, for which see List of placental mammals). Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's "Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference" using the "Planet Mammifères" website.
List of mammals of Alaska. This is a list of all mammals currently found in the U.S. state of Alaska, whether resident or as migrants. With 112 mammal species, Alaska ranks 12th of the 50 U.S. states in mammalian diversity. [1] Not included in this list is the Steller's sea cow, an extinct sirenian that was once native to Alaska's Aleutian ...
Lists of mammals by region cover mammals found in different parts of the world. They are organized by continent, region, and country, and in some places by sub-national region. Most are full species lists, while those for Australia and the Caribbean have links to more specific species lists.
Mammals Herbivory is quite common among mammals , with herbivores occurring across diverse lineages and in a large variety of sizes, bodyplans , and niches. Both large and small herbivorous mammals are often important prey species for various predators, though the largest, such as the so-called "pachyderms" , are generally safe from predation ...