Questions related to mammals, animals that nurse their young, have a neocortex, and three middle ear bones.
Mammals are animals that nurse their young, have a neocortex, and three middle ear bones.
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What hair do aquatic mammals have?
I'm reading an essay on the creating of the Mammalia zoological classification (Londa Schiebinger, The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 382-411).
It contains the statement (page 386)
All mammals (including the whale)…
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Mammal body density
Human body density is approximately 1 kg/l (same as fresh water) - which is not surprising (at first) given that we are 70% water, and is surprising (on a second thought), given that the other 30% can be just about anything (from the air in the…
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Why does snow not stick to the fur of wolves and some breeds of dogs?
This question made me wonder, why for example wolves don't suffer from these "paw snowballs"?
(...) but after a few miles on the trails in soft snow, he often develops snowballs between his paw pads - usually one big one right in the middle. (...)…
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How does the bear mother ensure her cubs don't escape during hibernation?
I have some questions relating to bears- more specifically, the brown bears we have in Scandinavia.
When they go into hibernation, do they fall asleep as we know falling asleep? If a bear mother brings her cubs into the den, how can she keep track…
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Like Mother Cape Buffalo,do remaining mammal mother species also try to protect their babies from being eaten by predative animals?
Some statistics say that on earth there are approximately 5500 mammal species.I have seen a video of Mother Cape Buffalo protecting it's calf from being eaten by predative animals.Like Mother Cape Buffalo,do remaining mammal mother species also try…
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