young mammal | any immature mammal |
Mammalia class Mammalia | warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female |
mammal mammalian | any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair, young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk |
female mammal | animals that nourish their young with milk |
mammal family | a family of mammals |
mammal genus | a genus of mammals |
monotreme egg-laying mammal | the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria |
marsupial pouched mammal | mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried |
placental placental mammal eutherian eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta, all mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
aquatic mammal | whales and dolphins, manatees and dugongs, walruses, seals |
cetacean cetacean mammal blower a | large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals |
sea cow sirenian mammal sirenian | any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs |
pinniped mammal pinniped pinnatiped | aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers |
fissiped mammal fissiped | terrestrial carnivores, having toes separated to the base: dogs, cats, bears, badgers, raccoons |
viverrine viverrine mammal | small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World |
fossorial mammal | a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging |
lagomorph gnawing mammal | relative large gnawing animals, distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing |
leporid leporid mammal | rabbits and hares |
ungulate hoofed mammal | any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically |
unguiculate unguiculate mammal | a mammal having nails or claws |
odd-toed ungulate perissodactyl perissodactyl mammal | placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot |
even-toed ungulate artiodactyl artiodactyl mammal | placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot |
musteline mammal mustelid musteline | fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals |
megatherian megatheriid megatherian mammal | a large extinct ground sloth |
Presbytes genus Presbytes mammal Semnopithecus | langurs |
plantigrade mammal plantigrade | an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings |
digitigrade mammal digitigrade | an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses |
Cenozoic Cenozoic era Age of Mammals | approximately the last million years |
mammalian | of or relating to the class Mammalia |