VERTEBRATES-MAMMALS

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Warm-blooded
• Born alive
• Have hair or fur

MAMMALS CAME TO EARTH...

SOME COOL MAMMALS?

• Platypus
• Possum
• Whale
• Pangolin
• Slowloris

WHY IS THE PLATYPUS COOL?
It lays eggs instead of giving a live birth unlike the rest of mammals.

WHY IS THE POSSUM COOL?
The possum plays dead to confuse its enemies into not attacking.

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WHY IS THE PANGOLIN COOL?
The pangolin is completely covered in scales despite the fact most mammals have fur or hair.

WHY IS THE SLOWLORIS COOL?
This is a poisonous primate who has poison on his elbow and to keep safe uses his tongue to spread the poison on its fur.

ALL MAMMALS ARE

MAMMALS HAVE

MAMMALS REPRODUCE BY