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Fruit bat
6 BATS
The only flying mammals, bats are Wing
African elephant
generally nocturnal. The majority are small membrane
stretches across
insect-eaters like the bumblebee-sized
long finger bones
Kitti’s hog-nosed bat—the world’s smallest
mammal. Bigger fruit bats eat fruit and
nectar, and find food using their large eyes. 8 EVEN-TOED UNGULATES
This group of hoofed mammals,
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including deer, cattle, camels, hippos,
7 ELEPHANTS and pigs, usually have two hoof-tipped
The three species of elephant—two toes. These herbivores have large cheek
in Africa, one in Asia—are the largest teeth to grind tough vegetation and
land animals. Elephants are sociable may also have large, four-chambered
animals that live in family groups and stomachs inside which bacteria aid the
use their trunks to communicate digestion of tough plants.
through smell and touch.

9 PRIMATES
This group includes apes, monkeys,
lemurs, bush babies—and humans.
8 Most primates live in social groups
in tropical and subtropical forests.
The majority are agile climbers with
Trunk is an extension long limbs and flexible, grasping
of the nose that
grasps vegetation fingers and toes. Primates also have
and transfers it to forward-facing eyes and large brains
the mouth compared to their body size.
Deer
10 MONOTREMES
Found in Australasia, echidnas and the
duck-billed platypus are monotremes—
the only mammals to lay eggs. After
hatching, their young feed on milk.
The platypus is a good swimmer and
probes for prey in the beds of streams
and lakes. Spiky echidnas mostly feed
on ants and termites.

11 INSECTIVORES
Insects and other small animals are
the preferred prey of these mammals.
Insectivores are typically small, solitary,
9 nocturnal animals that have sharp teeth
and depend on their senses of smell and
touch to find food. They include shrews
and hedgehogs. Moles are insectivores
adapted for life underground.

12 RODENTS
With more than 2,000 species, rodents
form the largest mammal group and are
found everywhere except Antarctica.
Rodents include mice, rats, squirrels,
beavers, and porcupines. To gnaw
tough foods they have two pairs of
sharp incisor (front) teeth, which
Baboon
do not wear down because they
never stop growing.
Mole
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