Classroom Animals and Pets -Mammals

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Hamsters

Rabbits

Mice... I don't have an info page up yet,
but you can read about our first class mouse on the Member's Showcase.

Rats

Gerbils... coming later
Guinea Pigs... coming later
Hedgehogs... contributions needed

Mammals: The 1989 World Book Dictionary definition of a Mammal is:

1. any one of a class of animals that are warm-blooded, that have a backbone, that usually have hair, that feed their young with milk from the mother’s breasts. Human beings, horses, cattle, dogs, lions, bats, rats, cats, and whales are mammals.
(originally - Anglicization of Mammalia, plural, ultimately <Latin mamma breast)

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This page revised December 1998.