Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals with hair, mammary glands to produce milk, and are endothermic. They have backbones and ingest food. Mammals are divided into monotremes which lay eggs, marsupials whose young develop further in pouches, and placentals where the embryo receives nourishment via a placenta connected to the uterus. Mammals have the most developed brains of animals, with potentiated memory and larger cerebrums in intelligent species enabling greater learning ability.

1. MAMMALS
Domain Eukaryote
Kingdom Animals
Phylum Chordata
Mammals have a backbone
eat by ingestion.

2. Characteristics
• Body covered by hair.
• Secrete milk by mammary glands.
• They are endotherms.

3. Particular types of mammals
• Monotremes
Mammals who are oviparous
• Marsupials
They baby stay into a marsupium

4. Placentals
They have a placenta which connect uterus
and embryo
When the baby born is stronger

5. Brain
• Is the most developed of all the animals.
• Potentiation of the memory.
• In intelligent mammals the cerebrum is
larger relative to the rest of the brain.
Ability to learn

6. GLOSSARY
Mammals: mammiferi
Backbone: colonna vertebrale
Mammary gland: ghiandole mammarie
Endotherms: endotermi
Monotremes: monotremi
Marsupials: marsupiali
Uteros: utero
Embryo: embrione
Created by Beatrice Cavina & Maria Agnese Emiliani