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Mammal Morphology - Bats and People

Mammals share many body traits in common. Yet each species has some characteristics that are unique. Both the common traits and the unique ones work to enable the species survive and thrive. Animal morphology or anatomy is the study of the shape, form, and structure of animals and their parts.

Review the Comparison and Contrast Guide @ ReadWriteThink - online activity through "Evaluating".

Tip: To work your way through click the right pointing arrow after reading each page. right arrow

Use the resources in Visual Dictionary Online to examine the external morphology of bats, people and one other meadow mammal.

table A table is a great way to make a visual representation of the findings so you can identify for similarties and differences. Enter the characteristics down the first column. Place a + plus sign if the mammal has that characteristic.
Place a - minus sign, if it does not.

External morphology

 
backbone      
hair or fur covering      
wing      
wing membrane      
eye      
ear      
skin      
elbow      
tail      
foot      
nose      
hand      
thumb      
wrist      
metacarpels      
claw      
skull      

Evaluate and Discuss Your Findings.

right arrow What do these three animals have in common?

 

right arrow What are their differences?

 

right arrow How do each animal's unique traits enable it to survive?

 

 

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Pennsylvania Science Anchors
S.A.2. Processes, Procedures, and Tools of Scientific Investigations
S 4.B.3.1 Identify and describe living and nonliving things in the environment or their interaction
S.B.2 Continuity of Life

Science NetLinks Benchmark 5 - The Living Environment
How living things function and interact. A. Diversity of Life
"One of the most general distinctions among organisms is between plants, which use sunlight to make their own food, and animals, which consume energy-rich foods. Animals and plants have a great variety of body plans and internal structures that contribute to their being able to make or find food and reproduce. All organisms, including the human species, are part of and depend on two main interconnected global food webs."

D. Interdependence of Life - " In all environments freshwater, marine, forest, desert, grassland, mountain, and others organisms with similar needs may compete with one another for resources, including food, space, water, air, and shelter.