Monday, May 23, 2011

Example from the Class Mammalia/ Imprinting: Zoo 5/20/11

Black Rhinos are animals in the class mammalia. They are endotherms with hair. Their skin contains glands, and they produce milk from their mammary glands. Mammals have external ears and different types of teeth. There is also a diaphragm located between their thorax and abdomen. Mammals give birth to live young. This baby rhino has already gone through many phases of imprinting, or phases of learning. It has learned from the other female rhinos how to act and when to eat. Here she stays close to the older females, because she is in the process of learning the ropes of her habitat and how to react to all of the visitors.

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