FERRETS

KINGDOM: Animalia
Characteristics that place it here:
multicellular with specialized eukaryotic cells
rely on other organism for nourishment
ingest food and digest food in an internal cavity
have their own means of locomotion
PHYLUM: chordata
characteristics that place it here:
bilaterally symmetrical bodies
at some point in their life time they have a pair of gill slits or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment
Have a notochord in some phase in their life cycle
Members often have a head, tail, and digestive system with openings at both ends of their bodies
CLASS: Mamilia
characteristics that place it here:
conceive their young within reproductive tract of the mother
nourish young with milk produced by the mother's mammary glands
are heterodynes
are endothermic
they have hair and sweat glands
they have four chambered hearts
they have a complex nervous system
they have large brains
ORDER: canivora
characteristics that place it here:
eats meat
they have a simple stomach
they have molar teeth
they hunt for their own food
FAMILY: Mustelida
characteristics that place it here:
they are carnivores
they have five toes
Genius: Mustela
characteristics that place it here
They are carnivores
five toes on each foot
Species: mustelanigripes
POEM
Ferrets are crazy,
They are very long and weird,
They are very small.

REFERENCES
animal diversity web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/mustela/m._nigripes$narrative.html
(January 10. 1001)
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/7970/rescue.html
(picture, backround)
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/8259/
(info, picture)