Mammalogy
Across
- 5. broad flat teeth at the back of the mouth, used for grinding.
- 8. role an animal plays in the environment.
- 10. ability to use an appendage like a limb.
- 11. organism that give birth to live young
- 13. useful feature in an organism that helps it to survive. They inherited and develop over generations.
- 14. organisms can maintain a constant body temperature.
- 15. animals that eat mainly ants.
- 17. organisms that have a body temperature that depends on temperature in the environment.
- 20. term used in reference to teeth and/or teeth arrangement.
- 23. animals that eat plants/vegetation.
- 24. animals that eat dead animals.
Down
- 1. endothermic animals that feeds its young milk produced by mammary glands.
- 2. organs that secret a substance such as sweet, scents, mammary (milk).
- 3. animals that eat meat.
- 4. noneutherian mammals that are born after a brief gestation and develops in a pouch (specialized fold of skin).
- 5. noneutherian, egg-laying mammals.
- 6. animals that have hooves and are totally herbivores.
- 7. animals that eat both plants and animals.
- 9. animals with backbones with a dorsal nerve cord.
- 12. animals that hunt and kill their prey (food animal).
- 13. ability to climb and/or live in a tree.
- 16. animals that are hunted killed by predators.
- 18. organisms that lay eggs
- 19. animals that are active in the night.
- 21. incisor teeth that usually grows out of the mouth.
- 22. small teeth located in the front of a mammal’s moth. Usually chisel like. Mammals like the deer and the moose have only bottom incisors.