Mammals [noun]

Its most probable explanation is that it appears as a passing survival of the first permanent coat of hair of the lower mammals.

The same peculiarity exists in the larger anthropoid apes and in some of the gibbons, but is not found in the lower mammals.

Among the carnivorous mammals the social dog or wolf tribe displays the intelligent habit of mutual aid.

In mammals the head rotates more easily, but valuable time is lost in the rotation of the whole body.

Of marine mammals the most characteristic are the sea-lion, fur-seal, sea-otter and harbour-seal.

The fauna is not abundant except in large mammals, which are very numerous on the drier steppes.

All the so-called higher animals, mammals and others, are divided into two sexes, male and female.

In common with many other mammals, the human male has a larger and stronger body, on an average, than has the human female.

They combine all the best features of plants, reptiles, and mammals.

Anatomically we find that we must place man with the apelike mammals, because of these numerous points of structural likeness.