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Mammalogy Crossword Puzzle

Across
The common house cat is found in this order.
Placental mammals
Order of eutherians that contains manatees.
Thermoregulatory mechanism that maintains a constant internal body temperature regardless of the external temperature.
What's the big _____?
Opposite of night
____we there yet?
Bump or crown in teeth.
A group of taxa that includes all of the descendants of a common ancestor. Also called a clade.
Order of egg-laying mammals.
Order that contains only one species- the elephant shrew.
Characterized by a pair of incisors in the lower jaw. This trait is a shared characteristic in an order of marsupials.
A urogenital opening from the digestive tract to the exterior. Releases excretory waste and genital products. The platypus and echidnas are the only mammals that still have this structure.
Organism that feeds primarily on insects.
Genus of the only North American marsupial.
Shared characters between different organisms due to common ancestry.
Animal that only eats leaves
The colugo is in this order
Dentition characterized by high-crowned teeth. Common in herbivores.
Flightless bird similar to the ostrich.
Mammal characterized by incomplete fetal development in the womb where development continues in a pouch while the offspring attaches to its mother’s nipples along her underside.
Down
Man’s best friend.
Georgia Southern campus is a no-smoking _______
Superorder of eutherians that includes the order Afrosoricida.
Order of eutherians with the most extant species
Time period composed of 365 days.
Family of the feral hog?
refers to a season of heterothermy characterized by low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate.
Difference in growth rate between body parts relative to changes in body size.
Used by bats to find prey and move around their environment. Uses high frequency sound waves.
Modified upper premolar and lower molar teeth used to shear flesh. Present in many carnivores.
Order that contains dolphins.
_____teeth. Referred to as milk teeth. They are later replaced by permanent teeth in humans.
Functionally similar traits that evolved independently of each other.
The study of the history, diversification, and relationships among taxa.
Ancestor of present day mammals. Belonged to a carnivorous order of therapsids
Number between zero and two.
Warm-blooded animal
The Garden of ______ is discussed in the bible.
In addition; besides.