Mammals Basics

Mammalogy Lecture Notes

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.

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Mammals Basics

This note covers the following topics: Diversity, Geographic Range, Habitat, Physical Description, Development, Reproduction, Communication and Perception, Food Habits, Predation and Ecosystem Role.

Author(s): University of Michigan

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