2006-07-11 02:19:12 · 11 answers · asked by RAJA R 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals with mammary glands. In females the mammary glands produce milk. Mammals are also characterized with hair and fur and are "warm-blooded" (meaning their bodies generates its own heat).
I also wanted to add that giving birth is not a necessary trait to be a mammal. The platypus for instance is a mammal with all the above traits and it lays eggs.
2006-07-11 08:34:54 · answer #1 · answered by criticinme 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humans are mammals. Mammals have hair, are warm blooded, and give their young milk. Mammals comes from the word "mammary" which also supports the fact that mammals give milk to their young. Other mammals are cats, dogs, mice, and monkeys.
2006-07-11 09:22:43 · answer #2 · answered by Steph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mammals are any living being that has fur and has live babies. Also Mammals are warm blooded. Primates, Humans, Canines and Felines are all types of mammals.
2006-07-11 09:32:35 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mammals are the ones that give birth to the young and feed them with their milk
2006-07-11 09:24:11 · answer #4 · answered by Mein Hoon Na 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mammals are animals usually with hair or fur, the mother's can feed their babies with their milk, they have lungs, live on land, and most live on land like the cat and dog and monkey families, but others live in water like whales or dolphins.
2006-07-11 09:24:48 · answer #5 · answered by viclyn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything that breathes air .Fish don't need oxygen to survive .Its not like they need to come out of the water to breathe.But a dolphin or whale does .They are mammals.Any animal on land is a mammal as well
2006-07-11 11:11:13 · answer #6 · answered by kari_beari_love_cherri 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whales are also mammals. They give birth to their young, unlike most other sea creatures that lay eggs and wait for them to hatch.
2006-07-11 09:24:02 · answer #7 · answered by j.f. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young
2006-07-11 09:23:45 · answer #8 · answered by ladylaw_912 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whales, dolphins and porpoise are mammals also along with kangaroos, koalas, wombats, numbats, wallaroos, Tasmanian devils, wallabies, platypus, echnida; the list is quite extensive.
2006-07-11 09:28:52 · answer #9 · answered by peter r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mammals are the organisms which have the vertebres & their whole body is covered with hairs.
2006-07-11 12:06:42 · answer #10 · answered by surjit1754 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋