Domain- Eukarya Kingdom Animalia Phylum- Chordata Class- Mammalia

Mammal characteristics  Hair  Different types of teeth  Mammary glands (feed milk to young)  Endothermic (maintain constant body temperature)  Have lungs must breathe air

Echidna

Platypus

insectivora  Eat insects  Shrews, moles, hedgehog

Star nosed mole

Order - Rodentia  Continuously growing teeth  High metabolism  High reproductive rate  Mice, rats, beaver, squirrels, capybara, porcupines, chinchilla, gopher, ground squirrels

Ground hog

Marmot

Capybara

Order Lagomorpha  Pika, rabbits  Ever growing teeth  Large feet

Pika

Bat – order Chiroptera  Only true mammal fliers Use echolocation to Find food- Most eat insects Some eat fruit

Order Artiodactlya  Walk on even number of toes  Grazers  Camels, pigs, cows, deer, elk, antelope, hippos, giraffe, llama, sheep

Antelope Antelope

Order Perissodactlya  Odd toed grazers  Horses, rhinos, tapirs

Tapir

Order Xenarthra –Anteater sloths, armadillo

Order Carnivora  Meat eaters or omnivores  Dogs, cats, hyena, civets, seals, walrus, skunk, raccoon, bears, weasels

civet

Cheetah

Dingo

Fox

Sea Lions

Sea Otter

Order Hyracoidea  Not a ruminant but a multichambered stomach  Warm blooded but not good at regulating temperature so they huddle to help keep warm  herbivores

Hyrax

Order cetacea  Whales and dolphins  Live in water but have to breathe air  Have nose on top of head – blow hole  Two groups  toothed whales – beluga, killer whales, dolphins  Baleen whales- blue whale, humpbacked whale, bowhead whale

Beluga whales

Grey Whale

Killer whales

Sirenia  Include manatees and dugongs  Closest relatives- elephant and hyrax  Herbivores  Have fingernails on their fins

Manatee

Order Primates  Lemurs, sifaka, old world monkeys, new world monkeys, great apes, Lorises, Tarsiers, people

Howler monkey

Spider monkey

Family hominidae  Orangutan, chimpanzee, gorilla, People  Binocular vision  Opposable thumbs  Large brains  Long term parental care of offspring  Omnivores or herbivore  Male larger than female (sexual dimorphism)

Ancient humans  Australopithecus- extinct 2million yrs ago  H. habilis and H. gautengensis mya  H. rudolfensis and H. georgicus mya  Neanderthal and Denisovan 400, ,000 ya  H. sapiens 250,000 ya to present

AVERAGE WEIGHTAVERAGE STATURE SPECIESmales females females as % of males males females females as % of males Australopithecus afarensis 92 lbs (42 kg) 64 lbs (29 kg) 64%4 ft 11 in (151 cm) 3 ft 5 in (105 cm) 70% Australopithecus africanus 90 lbs (41 kg) 66 lbs (30 kg) 73%4 ft 6 in (138 cm) 3 ft 9 in (115 cm) 83% Paranthropus robustus 119 lbs (54 kg) 88 lbs (40 kg) 74%3 ft 9 in (114 cm) 3 ft 3 in (99 cm) 87% Paranthropus boisei 108 lbs (49 kg) 75 lbs (34 kg) 69%5 ft 4 in (137 cm) 4 ft 1 in (124 cm) 91% earliest humans (Homo habilis) 114 lbs (52 kg) 70 lbs (32 kg) 61%5 ft 2 in (157 cm) 4 ft 1 in (125 cm) 79% modern humans 1 (Homo sapiens) 144 lbs (65 kg) 119 lbs (54 kg) 83%5 ft 9 in (175 cm) 5 ft 3 in (161 cm) 92%