what type of body plan do mammals/brids have?
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bilaterally symmetric.  We are also both cordates (we have a spinal cord) and vertebrates (a backbone).
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Archaeopteryx\nBrontotherium\nDinosaurs\nDire Wolves\nDodos \nIchthyosaur\n Mammoths\nMastodons\nSaber-Toothed Tigers\nThylacines\nTrilobites
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Yes.The are called hermorphodites.They are born with both male and female sex organs.
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I suppose all eutherian mammals should be considered higher, (excluding metatherian and protherian). Any other division would be very skewed ,a hypothetical elephant looking for higher mammals would view evoloutionary history in terms of proboscitude ;pthus considering all mammals with larger noses then average as 'higher'
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Of course , the default mammalian body plan (blauplan) is female.
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Have a look at the limbs of a lizard.  Not too unlike ours - has all the same sections in the same places.  Some even have five "fingers".  \n\nWhen mammals came along they took the format much further - creating ungulates with two toes, horses with one, dogs with four and a dew claw.  \n\nEven whales have the skeletal bones of hands in their pectoral fins.  \n\nLemurs are supposedly more primitive than monkeys and apes, but go see them at a zoo.  I was lucky enough to hand feed one, and it has hands remarkably like a tiny human.  It was unreal.  \n\nThe format has changed constantly, built on a vertibrate format developed initially by fish.
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All animals that have mammary glands to produce and feed their young ones with MILK are mammals. So Rodents like rats,mice and bandicoots are all mammals.BUT all mammals are not rodents. Lions and Elephants ARE mammals but they are NOT rodents.All human beings are mammals.But are they rodents? The last example will clear any doubt in your mind.\nRodents have their own peculiarities, which set them apart from other mammals.\nThey have burrowing habits, the front teeth or the incisors are longer than the others, sharp and pointed. They continue to grow for long. Therefore. The animal must constantly ‘GNAW’ at something to keep them trim and sharp.\n Besides the examples quoted above; the others in the category of rodents are rabbits, hares, squirrels and otters. They all come under class- Mammalia and order-Rodentia.
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OMNIVORES \nEats live prey and plants \nOSTEOMALACIA \nSoftening of the bones \nOVIPAROUS \nReproduces by laying eggs\n\nOr...\nOdd
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Diet is reconstructed by reconstructing the animal and reconstructing its environment.\n\nReconstructing the environment can be achieved by looking at the plant fossils that occur alongside an animal. That gives a good indication what type of habitat the animal lived in, whether it was tropical rainforest, arctic tundra, desert etc. With that information it is possible to construct a list of possible diets. For example we won’t speculate that an animal could have eaten bamboo if it live din deserts, and we can rule out that an animal ate lizards if it lived in polar wastes.\n\nThe next step is to reconstruct the animal itself. \n\nThat reconstruction normally starts with the teeth. Teeth can tell us a lot about diet. For instance predatory animals usually have sharp widely-spaced teeth like a lion or crocodile, while herbivores have rounded, closely packed teeth like a cow.  \n\nThe next step is to look at teeth wear. Looking at teeth structure gives us a lot of information about diet but it isn’t perfect since animals like pandas and fruit bats have sharp carnivore type teeth yet live entirely on plants. But plant leaves contain a lot of hard material and they wear teeth away very fast and leave a lot of scratches, so we can see whether an animal ate a lot of plant material by looking at the teeth. That way we can tell separate out animals like pandas and fruit bats that recently evolved a vegetarian diet from their carnivorous descendants.\n\nThe next step is to reconstruct the rest of the skeleton. By looking at the ways the bones are hinged and how big the muscle attachment points were we can get a very good idea of how an animal moved. That then tells us thing like whether a meat eating animal was strong and fast enough to make its own kills like an eagle, or whether it had to rely on scavenging like a vulture. It also tells us whether an animal could climb, or swim or burrow.\n\nThe final step is to look at injuries. When bones break they leave a scar even after hey heal, and starvation and disease also leave marks on bones. By looking for those signs we can see whether the animal was suffering from injuries associated with being kicked by prey animals, or from falls from trees and so forth and we can tel whether its prey was seasonally abundant like salmon, or whether it was available year-round like tropical grasses.\n\nSo now we know what types of food existed alongside the animal because we reconstructed its habitat.\nAnd we know what the animal was adapted to eat by the tooth structure.\nAnd we know how much plant material it ate from the wear on the teeth.\nAnd we know whether the animal got that food by hunting, scavenging, swimming, climbing etc. from the muscle and bone structure.\nAnd we know when that food was available, what sort f animals were being attacked by predators and so forth.\n\nWith all that information we can build up a very accurate picture of animal diets just form fossil evidence.
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No, only mammals (with the exception of monotremes) have nipples. Chicken "breasts" are their huge pectoral muscles. \nI hope you're on the winning side :-)
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Of course - they are mammals!  This site refers to relevant issues for reference:\n\nhttp://www.hedgehogworld.com/content/view/26/42/
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They reproduce by giving birth.\nThey have to reproduce via male and female combination.\nThey can adapt their body temperature depending on environmental conditions.\nThey all have hair.
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Er...more that just mammals have dual lungs buddy.  \n\nIn fact, any creature that has lungs (amphibians/turtles, reptiles/birds, and mammals) have a set of two lungs.  The listed classes of animals all have bilateral symmetry, meaning they have two identical sides.  Hence, they have two lungs!
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Your most advanced animals have what is called bilateral symmetry.  This simply means they have two sides to their body.  The right and the left.  They also have what is called cephalization where most of the organisms sense organs are located in the area of the head.  It is a body plan that seems to work in the scheme of evolution.  It helps the animal adapt to a new environment since the head is the firs body part to enter it.
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In contrast to most mammals, humans do not have an all-embracing intense hair on their body. Several theories have been advanced to explain the bareness of human body hair. One suggests that nature selected humans for shorter and thinner body hair as part of a set of adaptations including bipedal locomotion and an upright posture. There are several problems with this savanna theory, not least of which is that cursorial hunting is used by (other) animals that do not show any thinning of hair, and that hair similar to chimpanzees and gorillas also shades the skin from radiant heat and protects it from hot winds, and thus another mechanism for heat loss is not required. Another problem is that bipedal locomotion apparently now predates hominids moving from a forest environment to a savanna environment. A more recent theory for human hair loss has to do with a possible period of bipedal wading in a salt marsh in the Danakil region of Ethiopia, possibly occurring in the hominid lineage between 5 and 7 million years ago. As a wading animal, it was more efficient to develop short body hair and a layer of subcutaneous fat for streamlining and insulation in the aquatic environment; the eccrine sweat glands developed later after the hominids left the water; see Aquatic ape hypothesis. One problem with this theory is that both chimpanzees and gorillas have the same density and distribution of the eccrine glands, but that they have not been developed for sweat production.\n\nA third theory for the thin body hair on humans proposes that Fisherian runaway sexual selection played a role here (as well as in the selection of long head hair). Possibly this occurred in conjunction with neoteny, with the more juvenile appearing females being selected by males as more desirable; see types of hair and vellus hair. The human female body hair typically has more vellus hair (making the skin appear bare), while the male body typically has more terminal hair (especially on the chest, abdomen and back). Thus sexual selection can explain the sexual dimorphism in human body hair, with the results of selection being more evident (more extreme) in the female than in the male, a point which the other two theories cannot address without proposing substantially different behavior between males and females. Also, we see that artificially bare (shaved, etc.) legs, arms, etc. on women are seen as "sexy" even today, while body shaving is not nearly as common for men.
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We are all mammals, and a mammal is defined as an animal having mammary glands (and nipples), pentadactylic limbs, hair, and give birth to live young.\n\nMen have nipples because we have mammary glands, although these are underdeveloped in Males due to the lack (or controlled amounts) of female hormones such as osteogen in our bodies.  Males exposed to large amounts of female hormones have been known to develop breasts (enlarged mammary glands).
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A seal.  They're playful, zippy, loud, sleek, soulful, have big brown eyes, love the water, and love to fish.  : )    \n\nWhich brings me to a thought:  Changing us into animals won't cut down on the violence.  Nature IS violence.  Food chain, baby.  It's no pretty thing.\n\nFun question to ponder, though.  Had you asked what I'd *want* to be, it'd be a bird.  But seal is more *me.*