| Animals like Mammals or formally known as | | | | covered with hair. |
| Mammalian is a class of vertebrate animals. Its name | | | | The Fastest |
| is derived from their distinctive feature, the | | | | As might be expected, the mammal in this category |
| mammary glands, with which they feed their young. | | | | depends on the terrain. And because they are living |
| Living mammal's species can be identified by the | | | | on different type of lifestyle mammals each domain |
| presence of sweat glands, including those that are | | | | requires different types of locomotion skills. |
| specialized to produce milk. Mammals have almost the | | | | The known fastest air mammal is the big brown bat, |
| same distinguishing features and characteristics to | | | | which can flap its way up to 15.5 miles per hour. |
| humans. They are known as the warm-blooded | | | | While the fastest water mammal is the killer whale |
| animals, covered with hair and we like to think of | | | | that can reaches a significantly higher 34 miles per |
| ourselves as the best mammal around because | | | | hour. And of course we cannot forget the land |
| humans have all the advantages through our | | | | creature which is the titled as the overall fastest |
| intellectual mind. However, in many categories other | | | | mammal, the cheetah. It can run as fast as 70 miles |
| animals have us beat, paws down. The following are | | | | per hour and due to the amazing amount energy |
| the top list of class mammalian: | | | | they need, this mammal can pour on their power only |
| The Biggest | | | | for a short period of time but a little period is enough |
| Blue Whale is a massive creature that survives on | | | | for them to regained strength for another run. |
| plankton. Weighing 150 tons, the blue whale is the | | | | The Slowest |
| largest animal known living creature. Their ability to | | | | In a competition over slowness, there are three |
| maintain life on such a grand scale is aided by its | | | | animals come to our mind: the tortoise, the sloth, and |
| oceanic lifestyle. Their vegetarian eating habit | | | | the snail. Definitely the snail is the slowest of them all. |
| supports them to live a large life-form. | | | | The garden snail clocks in at a molasses-like 0.03 miles |
| The Smallest | | | | per hour. Not because of their size and weight but by |
| Kitti's Hog-nose bat or Bumblebee bat truly earns its | | | | moving at a steady pace, it would take the snail 12.5 |
| title because it is only measuring 1.14-1.3 inches and | | | | hours to go around a standard city block. |
| weighing 0.06-0.07 ounces. While the smallest land | | | | The Thickest |
| mammal, the pygmy shrew is only slightly larger, | | | | And lastly, this category titled to the rhinoceros, the |
| tilting the scales at a heft 0.05-0.09 ounces. They are | | | | land mammal with the thickest skin of any animal. It |
| so small that they're outweighed by two standard | | | | has 1-inch-thick skin and rough boss. |
| paperclips. Even though their diminutive stature places | | | | Mammals are the closest living creature to humans, |
| them eye to eye with many snails and insects, these | | | | and they are called extremes because of their |
| two smallest animals are true warm-blooded | | | | distinctive features. Like Humans they also need to |
| vertebrates: they can produce milk and they are | | | | survive living in this earth. |