This note covers the following topics:
introduction and survey of living orders, mammalian origins, biogeography,
mammalian structure and movement, dentition and feeding, nervous system and the
senses, reproduction, mammalian systematics, monotremata and the marsupials,
marsupialplacental dichotomy, afrotheria: afrosoricida, macroscelidea,
tubulidentata, xenarthra: cingulata, pilosa, erinaceomorpha, soricomorpha,
chiroptera, pholidota carnivora, parasites and zoonoses, dermoptera, scandentia,
primates, solitary behavior and biological rhythms.
This book covers the following topics:
Introduction to Mammals, Origin of Mammals, Early Mammals and Monotremes,
Metatherian Diversity, Eutherian Diversity, Mammalian Species, Evolution of Ear
Ossicles and Mammalian Anatomy.
This book is designed solely to facilitate the primary studies of
those who desire to become acquainted with that branch of natural history, which
treats of mammiferous animals.