TEMPERA

TURE
Regulation
 All mammals are
endothermic[warm-blooded]—that
is, they maintain and regulate
their own body temperature, no
matter the external conditions.
 (Cold-blooded vertebrates, like
some snakes and turtles, are
ectothermic.)
  HAIR
Mammalian body  The hairs on the skin

temperature also help to CONTROL BODY

TEMPERATURE.
 They lie flat when we are warm,
and rise when we are cold.
 The hairs trap a layer of air above
the skin, which helps to insulate
the skin against heat loss.

 SUBCUTANEOUS FAT
 In addition to its role
in heat production, subcutaneous adipose
tissue also forms an insulating
barrier around the shell of
the body and is therefore an
important means of regulating heat loss
• SWEAT GLANDS • HOMEOSTASIS
• The eccrine sweat gland, • Mammals without sweat
regulates body glands pant to get rid of
temperature. When excess heat, an example of
internal temperature ris homeostasis.
es, the
eccrine glands secrete water
to the skin surface,
where heat is removed
by evaporation.

Body
Temperature
Regulation
 Feeding In Mammals
TEETH AND JAWS
•  Herbivores have teeth which are shaped to
squash and grind plants.
•  Carnivores have teeth which are shaped to
slice and rip the meat they eat.
• often have long, sharp, pointed teeth to rip
and cut meat and flat molars to crush plant
material.

• HIGH METABOLIC RATE

• Must eat about 10x the
amount of food as reptile
of the same size to
maintain homeostasis.
• RUMEN
• True ruminants, such
as cattle, sheep, goats,
deer, and
antelope, have one
stomach with four
compartments: the rumen,
reticulum, omasum, and
abomasums.

DIGESTION • DIGESTIVE TRACT

•  Carnivores typically
have only one stomach
chamber and a
simple digestive system.
•  Herbivores can often
have several stomach
chambers and a much
longer digestive tract.
 • Toothed whales generally use their teeth to grab and hold
on to for tearing and breaking up prey their prey before
FEEDING swallowing it.
• Some beaked whales have only two to four teeth, they are
squid eaters and are thought to suck in squid and swallow
them whole.

Baleen is a filter-feeding
 system inside the 
mouths of 
baleen whales.

The teeth of whales have been

replaced by stiffened plates called
Baleen.
Thes strain out plankton from the
water it takes in.