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mammal (mam'al) n. any warm-blooded vertibrate of the class mamalia, charachterized by a covering of hair on some or most parts of the body, a four-chambered heart, and nourishment of a newborn with milk from maternal mammary glands.
Note: Most of the entries
have been taken from the IUCN 2000
Redlist and most of the
data provided is courtesy of "Philippine Red Data Book"
by Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines,
published by
Bookmark;
"Mammals of the Philippines" by
Lawrence R. Heaney,
"Vanishing Treasures of the Philippine
Rain Forest" by Lawrence R. Heaney and Jacinto C. Regalado,
Jr.; "A Field Guide to
Whales and Dolphins of the Philippines" by JML Tan and published
by Bookmark.
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