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

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http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/8259/

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