What Are The Defining Features Of A Mammal?

A mammal is a warm blooded animal that has several features that set it apart from other types of animal. It has fur covering its skin. This can be thick and heavy, as in the case of a lion or a pet schnauzer, or it can be so fine it is almost invisible. The human body has thick hair on the head and males have more body hair than women but many people have very fine hair on the arms and legs.

Another feature of a mammal that is of great importance, and is where mammals get their name, is the possession of mammary glands. Female mammals have glands that produce milk. Milk is expressed when a young of the species is born and the baby mammal depends on this milk supply as its only source of food for the first stage of its life.

Mammals also give birth to live young; they do not lay eggs like birds. Mammals mate and use internal fertilisation to start off embryos in the mother's body. The uterus, a specialised organ in the female, protects the growing embryo and the placenta, a rich blood supply, nourishes it from the blood system of the mother. The embryo is protected in its mother's body until it is at a fairly advanced stage of development.

A mammal is a Big ani8mal and a small animal it has all different features !

Warm blood give birth to live young and feed milk to there young

Mammals breathe using there lungs most live on land some live in water.