2. What is a
Mammal?
• Mammals are animals that
have hair, are warm-
blooded, and nourish their
young with milk
• Other animals don’t do
these things
• Some modern-day
mammals include people,
apes, dogs, mice,
elephants, pandas, and
many more.
3. Mammals are warm
blooded.
The temperature could be freezing cold
or boiling hot,
but mammals’ bodies are built to maintain just about the same
temperature all the time.
Warm blood lets the mammals be very active and live in a wide variety
of places.
4. More about
Mammals
•Polar bears live in very cold areas.
•Camels live in hot areas.
•Moles live under the ground.
•Bats live in caves and fly in the air.
•Dolphins live in the oceans.
•Fur and fat help protect mammals who live
in the cold.
•Mammals sweat or pant to release extra
heat if they live somewhere toasty.
5. The Different Types of
Diets
• There are four types of diets that mammals can
have. They can be:
• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Insectivores
6. Herbivores
• Herbivores are plant eaters.
• Some herbivores are:
• beavers
• cows
• horses
• pandas
• sloths
• and others
7. Carnivores
• Carnivores are meat eaters.
• Some carnivores are:
• whales and dolphins
• dogs
• tigers
• lions
• and others
8. Omnivore
• Omnivores eat both plants and meat.
• Some omnivores are:
• People
• some bears
• and others
10. Fastest and
Slowest
• The fastest mammal
(also the fastest land
animal) it the Cheetah.
The cheetah runs
between 60 and 70
miles per hour.
• The slowest mammal is
the sloth. The sloth
moves less than 1 mile
per hour.
11. Biggest and
Smallest
• The biggest mammal also known
as the biggest animal that ever
lived on Earth is the blue whale.
• The biggest land mammal is the
African Elephant
• The tallest mammal is the giraffe
• The smallest mammals are the
pygmy shrew and the bumblebee
bat.
• The pygmy shrew weighs
between 1.2 and 2.7 grams. The
bumblebee bat weighs about 2
grams
12. Loudest and
Fattest
• The loudest mammal is the
blue whale.
• The second loudest is the
howler monkey.
• The fattest mammal is the
blue whale who has thickest
layer of blubber, but the
ringed seal pups have the
greatest percentage of fat
(about 50%).
