Are Mammals the Most Dominant?
Mammals are any vertebrates within the class Mammalia, a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands. Females of all mammal species nurse their young with milk, secreted from the mammary glands.Which features make mammals as most successful and dominant animals?
The mammals are the most successful and dominant animals today. They thrive very well in the most environment of the world - polar ice caps, deserts, oceans, mountains, forests, grasslands and dark-caves. Man (a mammal) dominates the world. Some Unique mammalian characteristics are described below:
- Mammals are more successful and dominant because they have a more developed brain that make them think differently for their survival.
- They have more developed hearing efficiency due to the presence of pinna, three ear-ossicles and coiled cochlea in the ear.
- They are able to speak the language.
- They can eat anything, they are not dependent on a particular kind of food.
- They can regulate their own body temperature according to the environment.
- They can easily adapt to different conditions and competitions.
- The presence of an insulating and protective hairy exoskeleton.
- They are warm-blooded so have a high rate of metabolism.
- They are viviparous animals and show placentation and intrauterine development which increases the chances for survival of young ones.
- They show a high degree of parental care.
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