ntroductIon Within the classification of vertebrates, mammals are the most important. The females of this species have mammary glands that secrete milk, essential food for mammals from an early age. Information and characteristics of mammals Most mammals have hair, some have partially covered body, while others have hair all over the body. Objectively we can say that your heart has the following characteristics:. four chambers, curved aorta to the left and diaphragm that separates the abdomen from the chest cavity blood of mammals The blood of mammals remains always heated, that is, this species has a . body temperature regardless of the temperature of the external environment groups that make up the group of mammals is very wide, are part of this group the Marsupials (examples: possum, kangaroo and koala), species in which there is the development of the offspring mostly in outside the female's body, in a bag called pouch. Also included in this terrestrial carnivores group, for example, cat, dog and bear, as well as aquatic animals like seal, sea lion and walrus. There are still other aquatic mammals like whales, dolphins, which are part of the cetacean order (marine animals of the mammalian class), manatees, dugongs, which are the smallest members of the Sirenia order (marine mammals). Elephants (the Proboscidea order) are placental mammals which are characterized by the presence of developed a nose-shaped trunk; bats, which are the only mammals (Chiroptera order) capable of flying, representing a quarter of all the world's mammalian fauna. There are also other mammals belonging to other different orders as the sloth, armadillo and anteater (order Edentata ); the beaver, the marmot, the porcupine and squirrel (Rodentia order). There are two mammals groups hull, and they most members of the order of Perissodactyla (hoofed land mammals group with an odd number of fingers on feet, including horses, tapirs and rhinos) and the order Artiodactyla (the artiodactyls form an order of animals mammals ungulates with an even number of toes on the paws, is a very diverse group, with about 220 described species, which They include many animals with great economic importance to man, like the ox, goat, camel, hippo, pig, etc.). Humans also belong to the group of mammals (order of Primates) and monkeys also follow this same order. Scientific classification of mammals: Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia subkingdom: Metazoa Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infrafilo: Gnathostomata superclass tetrapoda Class: Mammalia Examples of mammals: man, whale, pig, ox, dog, cat, giraffe, horse, lion, mouse, kangaroo, elephant, monkey, bear, tapir, jaguar, fox, leopard, otter, manatee, deer, wild boar, maned wolf, ocelot, puma and ferret. Facts: - The Blue Whale ( Balaenoptera musculus) is the world's largest mammal. Its length is approximately 30 meters and its weight can reach 140 tonedas.
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