Guillermo del Toro

Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none.

Mexican Director

John Desmond Bernal

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

Irish Scientist

George Monbiot

Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us.

British Writer

George Groves

On fight night I feel alive and full of tingles. You feel your blood flow hot but that's how we like it. We're mammals, we're warm-blooded creatures.

British Athlete

Brian Sutton-Smith

Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.

American Psychologist

Robert T. Bakker

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

American Scientist

Isabella Rossellini

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.

Italian Actress

Elie Metchnikoff

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

Russian Scientist

Kathleen Quinlan

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

American Actress

Millie Bobby Brown

Orcas are my spirit animal. That's my favorite mammal.

English Actress

Mammals are warm-blooded, which means they maintain a constant body temperature regardless of the environment.

Warm-Blooded Feature

All mammals have some form of fur or hair, although it may not be obvious, like in whales.

Fur or Hair

Mammal mothers care for their young for a long time, teaching them survival skills.

Extended Care

 So it's not at all unusual, for example, to hear people to say humans are the only animals that laugh. Nietzsche thought that humans are the only animals that laugh. In fact, you find laughter throughout the mammals. It's been well-described and well-observed in primates, but you also see it in rats, and wherever you find it --

Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...

 ocean the killer whale is the most broadly distributed mammal in the world apart from us near shore off shore polar or tropical they occupy a singular position in the food web without concern of predation themselves fish seals penguins sharks great whales heck They ve been known to eat moose killer whales

Killer whale society PIPE...

 Animals are clearly important to us, so it's equally important that we avoid causing them unnecessary pain. For animals that are similar to us, like mammals, it's often obvious when they're hurting. But there's a lot that isn't obvious, like whether pain relievers that work on us also help them.

How do animals...

 and are evolutionarily linked to the rest of the class. Whether placental, marsupial, or monotreme, each of these creatures and its unique birthing methods, however bizarre, have succeeded for many millennia in bringing new life and diversity into the mammal kingdom.

The three different ways...

 and are far more common in infants that adults. Their explanation for this involves the uniquely mammalian activity of nursing. The ancient hiccup reflex may have been adapted by mammals to help remove air from the stomach as a sort of glorified burp.

Why do we hiccup? - John...

 to help their young survive the harsh, freezing climate. So how is milk made? In the uniquely mammalian process of lactation, a special class of milk-secreting cells known as mammocytes line up in a single layer around pear-shaped alveoli.

The science of milk -...

 and fierce storms made life unpredictable. Dinosaurs flourished on land, pterosaurs roamed the skies, and giant marine reptiles and sharks swam in warm seas. Small mammals, our ancestors, lived quite literally in the shadow

The ferocious predatory...

 When baby mammals are hand-reared, you have to do everything that mum does, and that includes encouraging them to wee and poop. In the wild, they can't do this on their own, so mum helps by licking their behind.

Raising an Abandoned...

 Out of these three, only one prefers the blood of mammals, and even these bats mostly feed on cattle. Maybe that still doesn't seem so great, but vampire bats can be a great help to humans.

The truth about bats -...

 the world's most trafficked mammal is one you may have never even heard of the pangolin