Marine Mammal Characteristics Quiz

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Which marine mammals are the only herbivorous ones?

  • Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Mysticeti
  • Order: Sirenia (correct)
  • Order: Carnivora, Suborder: Pinnipedia
  • Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Odontoceti

Which order of marine mammals includes animals that extract their prey from seawater using baleen plates?

  • Order: Sirenia
  • Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Mysticeti (correct)
  • Order: Carnivora, Suborder: Pinnipedia
  • Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Odontoceti

Which suborder of marine mammals includes animals that must return to a solid substrate, such as land or ice, to bear their pups?

  • Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Mysticeti
  • Order: Sirenia
  • Order: Carnivora, Suborder: Pinnipedia (correct)
  • Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Odontoceti

Which order of marine mammals includes animals that bear live young and nurse their young with milk produced by mammary glands?

<p>Order: Cetacea, Suborder: Mysticeti (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which order of marine mammals spend much or all of their lives in fresh or brackish water?

<p>Order: Sirenia (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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