Mammals online pdf worksheet - Free Printable

Let's solve this classification task by identifying which animals are mammals and which are not mammals.

---

🔍 What is a Mammal?

Mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates that:
- Have hair or fur
- Give birth to live young (most, except monotremes like platypus)
- Nurse their young with milk
- Breathe air using lungs

Common examples: cats, dogs, cows, whales, monkeys, etc.

---

🐾 Step-by-step Classification:

We'll go through each animal in the image and decide whether it’s a mammal or not.

---

#### ✔ Mammals (have fur, give milk, warm-blooded):

1. Cow – Yes, has fur, gives milk → Mammal
2. Cat – Yes, furry, gives milk → Mammal
3. Bat – Yes, even though it flies, it's a mammal → Mammal
4. Bear – Furry, gives milk → Mammal
5. Tiger – Furry, carnivorous mammal → Mammal
6. Whale – Marine mammal, breathes air, nurses young → Mammal
7. Horse – Furry, gives milk → Mammal
8. Goat – Has fur, produces milk → Mammal
9. Monkey – Furry primate → Mammal
10. Fox – Furry, gives milk → Mammal
11. Panda – Bear family, furry, nurse young → Mammal
12. Zebra – Horse family, furry → Mammal

---

#### ✘ Not Mammals:

1. Birds:
- Oriole bird → Bird → Not a mammal
- Bluebird → Bird → Not a mammal
- Kingfisher → Bird → Not a mammal
- Rooster → Bird → Not a mammal

2. Fish:
- Blue tang fish → Fish → Not a mammal
- Clownfish → Fish → Not a mammal

3. Reptiles:
- Crocodile → Reptile → Not a mammal
- Frog → Amphibian → Not a mammal

4. Invertebrates:
- Snail → Mollusk → Not a mammal
- Earthworm → Invertebrate → Not a mammal
- Crab → Crustacean → Not a mammal
- Centipede → Arthropod → Not a mammal

---

✔ Final Answer:

Now we fill the table:

| Mammal | Not a Mammal |
|------------|------------------|
| Cow | Oriole bird |
| Cat | Bluebird |
| Bat | Kingfisher |
| Bear | Rooster |
| Tiger | Blue tang fish |
| Whale | Clownfish |
| Horse | Crocodile |
| Goat | Frog |
| Monkey | Snail |
| Fox | Earthworm |
| Panda | Crab |
| Zebra | Centipede |

> ⚠️ Note: The table has 4 rows and 3 columns per category, so you can fit up to 12 items in each column. We have 12 mammals and 12 non-mammals — perfect!

---

📝 Summary:

- Mammals: Cow, Cat, Bat, Bear, Tiger, Whale, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Fox, Panda, Zebra
- Not Mammals: Oriole, Bluebird, Kingfisher, Rooster, Blue tang, Clownfish, Crocodile, Frog, Snail, Earthworm, Crab, Centipede

✔ You can now copy these into the table accordingly!