Environment / B2

MAML/ˈmæml/

A mammal is a warm-blooded animal that feeds its young with milk: a marine mammal; mammal classification. Animal is wider; vertebrate includes birds and fish. A whale is a mammal, not a fish. Mix-up: human is one mammal; mammal vs reptile on the key. Do not call a penguin a mammal.

Meaning

A warm-blooded animal that feeds its young with milk.

Examples

• “A whale is a mammal in the classification key, not a fish.”
• “Bats are mammals, which is the milk-and-hair sense, not “flying mice” as a joke.”

Good to know

a mammal; marine / land mammals. Wider: animal. Trap: calling whales fish. Biology and geography. Milk-feeders, not a fish or bird.

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