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Vertebrates5

• The title isn't strictly true - this page also features rodents, so is more concerned with all warm blooded vertebrates. (tenerife-information-centre.com)
• Mammals-a group that include humans-are warm-blooded animals with hair and vertebrates, or backbones. (nwf.org)
• Large, warm-blooded, four-limbed vertebrates whose females produce milk (see What is a Mammal ). (earthlife.net)
• Post your warm-blooded air-breathing vertebrates! (fieldherpforum.com)
• Humans, along with other mammals, are classified as 'vertebrates' because they have internal skeletons. (horniman.ac.uk)

Endangered species2

• This mammal is a very rare and endangered species. (tenerife-information-centre.com)
• Of those mammals, nearly a quarter are listed on the U.S. endangered species list for reasons including habitat loss , climate change , pollution , and disease . (nwf.org)

Birds and mammals4

• In warm-blooded organisms such as birds and mammals, Andrews explains, "our brain kicks in to regulate our body temperature. (latimes.com)
• Mostly parasitic, lice feed off the blood of warm-blooded animals, such as birds and mammals. (earthlife.net)
• While most research on aging variation in animals has focused on birds and mammals, this team examined 77 different species of reptiles and amphibians in the wild. (medlineplus.gov)
• Comparing this data to similar data from birds and mammals, the researchers uncovered links between animal aging rates, longevity, environments, traits, and behaviors-and made some surprising discoveries. (medlineplus.gov)

Reptiles6

• So even if you depend on your environment's heat to survive (which is what reptiles and lizards do), it is still possible to have warm blood . (zmescience.com)
• Reptiles are ectothermic or cold blooded. (howstuffworks.com)
• Cold-blooded reptiles and fish have their own strategies: "Fish move into warmer water to raise core body temperature when they have an infection. (latimes.com)
• While we all know hibernation is an adaptation technique among warm-blooded mammals, what about reptiles? (scaquarium.org)
• Grass snakes are classified as reptiles as they have scaly skin, are cold blooded, and lay eggs with leathery shells. (horniman.ac.uk)
• Cold-blooded animals such as reptiles and amphibians have some of the longest lifespans for their size. (medlineplus.gov)

Endothermic3

• and endothermic or "warm-blooded" bodies. (wikipedia.org)
• They are endothermic, or warm-blooded. (yourdictionary.com)
• Sharks store heat generated by their muscles, making them different from fully warm-blooded or endothermic animals like mammals. (eurekalert.org)

Amphibians1

• Amphibians are ectothermic or cold blooded. (howstuffworks.com)

Humans5

• Mammals encompass some 5,500 species (including Humans), distributed in about 1,200 genera, 152 families and up to 46 orders, though this varies with the classification scheme. (wikipedia.org)
• Mammals, including humans, are warm-blooded and generate a lot of heat internally," he explained. (livescience.com)
• And like humans, they are warm-blooded mammals who nurse their young. (vegofwa.org)
• Ticks may carry bacteria and pass them to humans and other warm-blooded mammals when they attach themselves for a blood meal. (cdc.gov)
• The deer (or bear) tick, which normally feeds on the white-footed mouse, the white-tailed deer, other mammals, and birds, is responsible for transmitting Lyme disease bacteria to humans in the northeastern and north-central United States. (cdc.gov)

Bats7

• But the vast majority of mammals are small and inconspicuous-nearly 40 percent are rodents and almost 25 percent are bats. (nwf.org)
• In all countries, with the exception of China where bats are revered and thought to bring good luck, bats have been labeled filthy and evil, even causing people trepidation of falling asleep for fear they would be drained of all their blood in the dark of night. (allatsea.net)
• As stated previously, bats are mammals, they bear live young, they nurse their young while cradling them in a wing, and they are the only mammal that truly flies as "flying squirrels" and "flying lemurs" are in reality only gliders. (allatsea.net)
• Bats are the only mammals capable of sustained flight. (mo.gov)
• Like most other mammals, bats have fur, are warm-blooded and give birth to live young. (horniman.ac.uk)
• However, bats are the only mammals that can truly fly! (horniman.ac.uk)
• They are the only mammals that can fly, and there are more than 40 different species of bats living in the United States and Canada. (cdc.gov)

Cold-blooded animals5

• Cold-blooded animals are also known as poikilothermic animals that are not able to control their body's temperature according to the temperature of their surroundings. (sandcreekfarm.net)
• Plus, they tend to adjust their inner temperature by bathing in the sun, changing body colors, etc… Cold-blooded animals don't have high-energy consuming organ systems, which allows them to survive on much less energy than warm-blooded counterparts. (sandcreekfarm.net)
• They have much more complex organ systems in comparison to cold-blooded animals. (sandcreekfarm.net)
• Cold-blooded animals rely on heat from the environment to stay warm. (medlineplus.gov)
• Overall, the cold-blooded animals in this study did not age more slowly or live longer than their warm-blooded counterparts. (medlineplus.gov)

Rodents2

• It was widely used in poison (toxic) baits to kill rodents and other mammals and is a common adulterant of many illicit (street) drugs. (cdc.gov)
• Ticks acquire these rickettsiae by feeding on infected mammals, typically rodents. (msdmanuals.com)

Nurse their young1

• Most of us recognize mammals easily - they have fur, are warm-blooded, nurse their young, and breathe air. (mo.gov)

Milk8

• Young mammals get nourishment from milk produced by their mothers. (yourdictionary.com)
• Mammals have mammary- or milk-secreting glands and they feed milk to their young. (howstuffworks.com)
• Mammals are animals that have hair, are warm-blooded, and nourish their young with milk. (enchantedlearning.com)
• A mammal Is an animal Has fur or body hair Is warm-blooded and Nurses its young with milk This quiz will test how well you know what a mammal is. (slideserve.com)
• Nurses its young with milk This quiz will test how well you know what a mammal is. (slideserve.com)
• Unlike other classes of animals, female mammals produce milk to nourish their young. (nwf.org)
• Mammals - Mammalia Have hair, feed young milk, warm blooded. (mt.gov)
• Only a tiny minority-4,629 at the current count-are mammals, warm-blooded animals that feed their young milk and have hair. (nwf.org)

Hibernate4

• A couple of small mammals that hibernate are the Colorado chipmunk (Neotamias quadrivittatus), and the golden mantle ground squirrel(Callospermophillus lateralis). (summitdaily.com)
• While most large mammals don't hibernate, bears are an exception, although they are not considered true hibernators. (summitdaily.com)
• While hibernation is a common adaptation technique among warm-blooded mammals, alligators do not hibernate, they brumate, the reptilian equivalent of mammal hibernation. (scaquarium.org)
• They bask in the sun to warm their bodies and hibernate during the winter. (horniman.ac.uk)

Ectothermic3

• They are ectothermic , or cold-blooded, which means they rely on their surroundings to regulate their body temperature. (yourdictionary.com)
• They are cold-blooded, or ectothermic. (yourdictionary.com)
• They started by collecting data from more than 100 populations of cold-blooded, four-legged animals (called "ectothermic tetrapods") around the world. (medlineplus.gov)

Largest mammal4

• This is the largest mammal in the entire world. (jeopardylabs.com)
• The Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus , is the largest mammal living today. (earthlife.net)
• It is also the largest mammal to have ever lived. (earthlife.net)
• When it comes to size, the 150-ton blue whale-the world's largest mammal-weighs 9.6 million times more than the smallest, the half-ounce, bumblebee-sized Kiito's hog-nosed bat. (nwf.org)

Dinosaurs6

• It seemed to be a no-brainer that dinosaurs are cold blooded, relying on a very warm environment to survive, and active only a few hours a day. (zmescience.com)
• The research seems to indicate quite clearly that dinosaurs were warm blooded, thus indicating a warm blooded metabolism, but the issue itself is much more complex. (zmescience.com)
• It's possible that many extinct archosaurs, including dinosaurs, were intermediate between cold-blooded and warm-blooded physiologies. (livescience.com)
• The first mammals appeared about 265 million years ago, a mere 10 million years after the first dinosaurs. (earthlife.net)
• But they remained relatively obscure for the first 160 million years while the dinosaurs ruled (see The Evolution of Mammals ). (earthlife.net)
• Actually, the warm blooded dinosaurs is only a hypothesis, nothing has been proven yet either way. (unexplained-mysteries.com)

Animals8

• The first group of mammals you'll see are from Africa, and these animals are used to illustrate the "adaptation" phase of evolution. (touringplans.com)
• In warm-blooded animals, however, the isotopes in their teeth record the effect of body heat produced by the animal, which is why the teeth indicate temperatures that are warmer than the surrounding seawater. (eurekalert.org)
• To most people animals are mammals. (earthlife.net)
• With winter coming to a close, it's a good time to talk about what animals have been doing to stay warm during the cold season! (scaquarium.org)
• Warm-blooded animals are capable of sustaining almost steady body temperatures, independent of the environmental temperature. (sandcreekfarm.net)
• Warm-blooded animals can easily produce heat within their body by consuming food. (sandcreekfarm.net)
• Are chickens cold-blooded or warm-blooded animals? (sandcreekfarm.net)
• As mentioned above, chickens are warm-blooded animals because they are birds or more accurately fowl. (sandcreekfarm.net)

Metabolism1

• A fast, hungry cheetah has a classic warm-blooded metabolism, but the relatively primitive platypus sports a tuned-down metabolism that in many ways is closer to that of a comparably sized lizard than. (unexplained-mysteries.com)

Regulate4

• But a new analysis by environmental scientists from UCLA, UC Merced and William Paterson University sheds light on the warm-blooded animal's ability to regulate its body temperature - and might help explain why it went extinct. (eurekalert.org)
• I carried them in my pockets to warm them when juveniles lost their grip and fell from the roost on to a cold concrete floor because, even though they are mammals, their ability to thermo-regulate is quite limited and they cannot fly for the first 3 weeks of life. (allatsea.net)
• It means that they can't regulate when it's warm in their shelter then freezing on the outside. (sandcreekfarm.net)
• We had no idea that the birds could regulate their blood as a heating system in this way, so we were surprised", says Andreas Nord. (lu.se)

Blue whale1

• Loudest mammal - the Blue Whale . (enchantedlearning.com)

Feathers4

• Birds are an incredibly diverse range of species but do share some common features, they're all are all warm-blooded, covered in feathers and lay eggs. (welshmountainzoo.org)
• I think its an anciet hairy dinosaur, acctually we know now some had fur/feathers and are potentialy warm blooded. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
• For most birds, they have feathers to keep them safe from unfavorable weather conditions, the unfeathered part would usually be covered underneath to keep them warm. (sandcreekfarm.net)
• Until now, the common perception has been that birds keep warm by shivering with their large pectoral muscles and fluffing up their feathers. (lu.se)

Order of mammals2

• One of the most threatened order of mammals is the primate, which includes monkeys and apes. (nwf.org)
• Along with echidnas, platypuses are grouped in a separate order of mammals called monotremes, which are different from all other mammals because they lay eggs. (horniman.ac.uk)

Tallest1

• The tallest animal on the planet is also a mammal - Giraffes, Giraffa camelopardalis , can be 6.1m or 20ft tall. (earthlife.net)

African Elephant2

• The largest living land animal on this planet is a mammal - the bull African Elephant. (earthlife.net)
• For example, most mammals (except the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, which lay eggs) give birth to live young, but pregnancy can last as long as 22 months for an African elephant or as little as 12 days for the short-nosed bandicoot. (nwf.org)

Eggs2

• Nearly all mammals give birth to babies and do not lay eggs [source: Buffalo State University]. (howstuffworks.com)
• Almost all mammals give birth to live young (except for the platypus and echidna, which lay eggs). (nwf.org)

Striped skunk1

• Skunks are omnivorous mammals notorious for their ability to discharge an obnoxious scent when provoked, and the striped skunk is the most commonly encountered skunk in our state. (mo.gov)

Neocortex1

• The neocortex gives all mammals this cognitive flexibility. (ru.nl)

Mammalia1

• Mammals are another type of vertebrate that belong to the class Mammalia . (yourdictionary.com)

Wild mammals1

• One of the best-known wild mammals in Missouri, the woodchuck, or groundhog, is a rodent in the squirrel family. (mo.gov)

Monotremes2

• The monotremes are primitive egg-laying mammals. (enchantedlearning.com)
• mammals whose young are born at a relatively advanced stage (more advanced than the young of other mammals, the monotremes and marsupials). (enchantedlearning.com)

Flying squirrels1

• Other mammals, including flying squirrels and sugar gliders, may appear to fly through the air, but actually glide. (horniman.ac.uk)

Duckbilled platypus1

• Only a few mammals are venomous, including the duckbilled platypus (males only) , several species of shrews, and the Solenodon (a small insectivore). (enchantedlearning.com)

Smallest3

• This tiny animal is one of two types of shrew found on Tenerife and has the distinction of being the smallest of all mammals by mass, possibly weighing as little as 1.3 grams (that's really light). (tenerife-information-centre.com)
• This underwater creature is one of the biggest mammals on the planet but eats only the smallest of creatures on the planet. (jeopardylabs.com)
• In a close 2nd place, the Pygmy or Savi's White-toothed Shrew Suncus etruscus weighs in at 1.5 - 2.5 grams or 0.05 - 0.09oz and is definitely the smallest land mammal on record. (earthlife.net)

Insects1

• Fleas are small jumping insects that parasitize mammals and birds. (earthlife.net)

Regulates1

• In mammals, a region of the brain called the hypothalamus regulates body temperature. (eurekalert.org)

Populations1

• We investigated how invasive R. rattus and native small mammal populations, as well as their fleas, have changed in recent decades. (cdc.gov)

Aquatic1

• What is this aquatic mammal? (fieldherpforum.com)

Temperatures1

• While most fish are cold-blooded, with body temperatures that are the same as the surrounding water, mackerel sharks keep the temperature of all or parts of their bodies somewhat warmer than the water around them, qualities called mesothermy and regional endothermy, respectively. (eurekalert.org)

Hibernation1

• During hibernation, mammals will fall into a deep sleep, and they don't eat or drink. (scaquarium.org)

Temperature6

• It pretty much depends on their body temperature - if they are cold blooded or not. (zmescience.com)
• Such feats would require a blood temperature close to that of today's mammals. (zmescience.com)
• Mammals have to eat a lot to maintain their high body temperature. (enchantedlearning.com)
• They are cold-blooded, their body temperature changes with their surroundings. (jeopardylabs.com)
• That temperature difference is greater than those that have been determined for other sharks that lived alongside the megalodon and is large enough to categorize megalodons as warm-blooded. (eurekalert.org)
• Just like many other warm-blooded species, chickens' internal temperature is not dependent on environmental changes. (sandcreekfarm.net)

Vertebrate1

• Birds are a type of warm-blooded vertebrate that are adapted to fly. (yourdictionary.com)

Bacteria1

• For Lyme disease to exist in an area, at least three closely interrelated elements must be present in nature: the Lyme disease bacteria, ticks that can transmit them, and mammals (such as mice and deer) to provide food for the ticks in their various life stages. (cdc.gov)

Babies1

• Almost all mammals give birth to live babies. (yourdictionary.com)

Hair2

• Most mammals have hair. (yourdictionary.com)
• Mammals have hair or fur. (howstuffworks.com)

Mice2

• Some small mammals, such as deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), and mountain voles (Microtus montanus), are able to stay active under the snow, where it stays approximately a toasty 32 degrees! (summitdaily.com)
• Among identified virulence factors is the attachment invasion locus protein, Ail, that is required to protect Y. pestis from serum complement in all mammals tested except mice. (cdc.gov)

Serum2

• 1993. Malathion disposition in dermally and orally treated rats and its impact on the blood serum acetylcholine esterase and protein profile. (cdc.gov)
• Similarly, flea studies with human blood showed Ail was not required for serum resistance. (cdc.gov)

Researchers5

• The researchers hypothesized that any difference between the isotope values of the megalodon and those of other sharks that lived at the same time would indicate the degree to which the megalodon could warm its own body. (eurekalert.org)
• Dutch and Norwegian researchers have previously discovered why Rudolph's nose is red, describing a rich supply of blood to the reindeer mule to keep it from freezing. (lu.se)
• Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that bird blood produces more heat in winter, when it is colder, than in autumn. (lu.se)
• The researchers took blood samples from the birds and isolated the red blood cells. (lu.se)
• The researchers will now investigate whether cold weather is the whole explanation for the birds' blood producing more heat in winter. (lu.se)

Apes1

• Mammal life spans range from 11 months for the male marsupial mouse to 70 years for elephants and some great apes. (nwf.org)

Body2

• Fennecs also have large ears - about a third the size of their entire body - and blood vessels there help dissipate heat. (touringplans.com)
• The scutes contain blood vessels and as the sun warms the surface of the skin, the blood running through the scutes is warmed and distributed throughout the rest of the body. (scaquarium.org)

Bodies1

• Ticks feed on blood by inserting their mouth parts (not their whole bodies) into the skin of a host animal. (cdc.gov)

Animal4

• This animal is the biggest mammal on land. (jeopardylabs.com)
• We divide the animal kingdom into two camps: warm-blooded. (explorersweb.com)
• Chances are - if you see an animal - it's a mammal. (earthlife.net)
• Mammals are in fact not the most speciose animal group on the planet. (earthlife.net)

Creatures2

• The results provide evidence that tropical, cold-blooded creatures - often characterized as unable to withstand rapid changes in climatic conditions - can sometimes endure conditions that exceed their established physiological limits. (wattsupwiththat.com)
• In the case of mammals, large panels near the hall entrance explain the characteristics that distinguish mammals from other creatures. (touringplans.com)

Lund University3

• Lund University in Sweden has now taken it a step further, creating an entire research group dedicated to mammals and their noses. (lu.se)
• This sparked the creation of the Mammalian Rhinarium Group at Lund University, which studies how mammals obtain sensory information from their specialised, hairless and wet nose tips called rhinaria. (lu.se)
• The blood becomes a type of radiator that they can turn up when it gets colder", says Andreas Nord, researcher in evolutionary ecology at Lund University who led the study. (lu.se)

Ticks1

• ticks are slow feeders: a In their larval and nymphal stages, complete blood meal can they are no bigger than a pinhead. (cdc.gov)

Small3

• It is found in almost all mammals, but it is especially prevalent in small mammals. (summitdaily.com)
• Small infected blood vessels may become blocked by blood clots. (msdmanuals.com)
• Over an 18-month period, a total of 2,959 small mammals were captured, sampled, and examined for fleas, resulting in the identification of 20 small mammal taxa that were hosts to 5,109 fleas (nine species). (cdc.gov)

Lyme2

• Although in theory Lyme disease could spread through blood transfusions or other contact with infected blood or urine, no such transmission has been documented. (cdc.gov)
• Lyme disease could be spread through blood transfusions or other contact with infected blood, there are no known cases of this happening. (cdc.gov)

Migrate1

• Most mammals do not, or cannot, migrate. (summitdaily.com)

Live3

• Some marine mammals may live even longer. (nwf.org)
• They live in tunnels but are generally out during the day, making them one of the few mammals that people can enjoy watching. (mo.gov)
• Rickettsiae live and multiply in the cells lining blood vessels. (msdmanuals.com)

Meal1

• They are slow feeders: a complete blood meal can take several days. (cdc.gov)

Large1

• This is very different from the behavior of most herbivorous mammals, which have large heads that house many teeth and spend much time chewing," McNab explained. (livescience.com)

Fleas1

• These mammals were hosts for 85.8% of fleas collected, including the efficient plague vectors Xenopsylla cheopis and X. brasiliensis, as well as likely enzootic vectors, Dinopsyllus lypusus and Ctenophthalmus bacopus. (cdc.gov)