Sentences with phrase «very young mammals»

But in fact all newborn and very young mammals generally share the shortened and softened features we love so much in puppies and babies.

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Like all mammals, whales breathe air into lungs, are warm - blooded, feed their young milk from mammary glands, and have some (although very little) hair.

In fact, as a marsupial, a class of mammals that keep their young in a pouch, it's a very long way from the cat family in evolutionary terms.

It's long been thought that the hearts of mammals stop producing cells at a very young age, but a new study by Australian researchers showed that exercise can actually increase the number of cells in the hearts of young lab rats.

Imprinting, a behavior characteristic of some birds and a very few mammals, involves rapid learning of recognition by a young bird or animal exposed to a conspecific or an object or organism that behaves suitably.