difference between mammals and animals?

Answer 1

Mammals are a type of animal. They produce milk (mammary glands, hence "mammal"), and have hair. Those are the main characteristics. They GENERALLY give live birth, but some "primative" mammals (monotremata, the platypus and the echidna) lay eggs. Also, mammals aren't the only ones who give live birth... some reptiles do.

Answer 2

All mammals are animals not all animals are mammals.

Mammals are warm blooded animals which give birth to live young and the females produce milk. Animals are multicellular organisms that can move and respond to their environment and so include fish, reptiles etc as well as mammals.

Answer 3

We as humans and animals are mammals because we are warm blooded, give birth to live young (not eggs), breast feed our babies and other things. We are not animals because some animals cannibalise, for example some animals eat their young. We don't have a mating season or go on heat and animals can't use a computer lol.

Answer 4

There is no difference, a mammel is an animal, a crustation is an animal, an amphibian is an animal, etc.

Mammals, produce milk for their young and don't lay eggs (live bearers).

Answer 5

Several levels of classification!

To identify a biological organism, taxonomists (biologists whose job is classification) use the (basic) structure 'Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species'. It should be noted that this is probably over-simplified: changes in taxonomic methodology since Linnaeus, particularly the unravelling of the genetic code, have resulted in the addition of super- and sub-classifications at each level, and many rearrangements of the taxonomic 'family tree').

So, e.g. humans are classified as follows:

Kingdom: Animalia ('animal')
Phylum: Chordata ('with a backbone')
Class: Mammalia (mammals)
Order: Primates (includes monkeys, apes, and lemurs)
Family: Hominidae (apes)
Genus: Homo ('man')
Species: sapiens ('who thinks')
Subspecies: sapiens (there was also a subspecies of humanity called Homo sapiens idaltu, now extinct)

As far as definitions go, the Kingdom Animalia includes all organisms which reproduce sexually and depend on another organism for nutrition. Chordata are a group of animals with an internal skeleton and central nervous system. So you can see that humans, eagles, trout and geckos would all be classified as Animals, in the Phylum Chordata (vertebrates) but that's as far as it goes.

Mammals are a group of chordata characterised by (amongst other things) the ability to regulate body temperature, bear live young, and sustain those young with milk. Of the groups mentioned above, only humans are in the Class Mammalia (along with e.g. dogs, cats, bats, rabbits, cows, horses, monkeys, etc.) whereas the others each belong to separate Classes, each of which has its own individual Orders, Families, etc.

Despite uncertainities in other classifications (particularly in the Plant, Fungi, and Protist Kingdoms), the definitions of 'Animal' and 'Mammal' still pretty much stand!

Answer 6

You need to help yourself to a 3rd grade science book. Animals are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, or fish. From there you should be able to make your own distinctions between families and species. Animals differ from Plants in the biological world. That is grade school type knowledge.

Answer 7

A mammal is an animal that produces milk. They have mammary glands that do so. A very few mammals do lay eggs. Echidnas and platypuses lay eggs.

Answer 8

Animals is the generic name that we give to mammals,amphibians, crustrations, fish etc.

Mammals is simply a sub division

Answer 9

All mammals are animals (they are so called after the mammary glands that produce milk for the young), but not all animals are mammals (for example reptiles, birds, fish).

Answer 10

Mammals are a type of animals like reptiles,birds,insects,etc.Mammals are the ones which give birth,which reproduce.