Page 11 - Mammal (DK Eyewitness)

AARDVARK (Tubulidentata)
Aardvark 1 species
Skull shown: Aardvark
See also p. 51

Kangaroo

Honey possum
CARNIVORES (Carnivora)
Includes big and small cats,
Lion dogs, foxes, wolves, hyenas, BOUND BY THE POUCH
bears, pandas, raccoons, The kangaroo and honey possum look quite
weasels, stoats, badgers, different, yet they are both marsupials. The
skunks, otters, mongooses, important common feature is the pouch in
civets. which the baby suckles and grows after birth.
About 230 species Only marsupials have this feature.
Skull shown: Egyptian
mongoose
See also pp. 2, 3, 4, 16-17, SEALS (Pinnipedia)
21, 28-9, 34-9, 42-3, 46-7, Seals, sea lions, walruses.
49, 50, 53, 56, 59, 60, 63 About 33 species
Skull shown: Gray seal
See also pp. 10, 20, 51, 59, 63

Seal

BATS (Chiroptera)
Includes flying foxes (fruit bats), vampires,
and all other bats.
About 1,000 species (nearly one-quarter
of all mammal species)
Skulls shown: Common flying fox
See also pp. 2, 18-19, 63

Bat
Colugo
Rat
COLUGOS (Dermoptera)
Also called flying lemurs.
2 species
Skull shown: Malayan
colugo
See also p. 19 RODENTS (Rodentia)
Includes rats and mice, dormice,
gerbils, beavers, squirrels, porcupines,
chinchillas, pacas, voles, hamsters, RABBITS AND HARES (Lagomorpha)
chipmunks. Includes rabbits, cottontails, Rabbit
About 1,700 species jackrabbits, hares, pikas.
Skull shown: Giant pouched rat About 80 species
See also pp. 2, 4, 5, 16, 20, 22-3, 27, Skull shown: European rabbit
32-3, 44-5, 48-9, 51, 52-3, 54-5, 61, 63 See also pp. 2, 4, 60

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