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What are mammals?

Mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates (animals with backbones) that nourish their young with milk. All mammals have hair at some stage of their life. Mammals have larger, more highly developed brains than other animals. There are more than 4,000 mammal species on earth; below is the list of mammals on exhibit at the Zoo. Please click the mammal links to view their fact sheets.

Carnivores Bear, American black Civet, lesser Asian Coati, white-nosed Dog, African wild Fossa Fox, bat-eared Fox, Channel Island Jaguar Leopard, snow Lion, African Meerkat Ocelot Otter, North American river Serval Tiger, Sumatran Wolf, maned Edentates (Toothless Mammals) Armadillo, La Plata 3-banded Marine Mammals Sea lion, California Seal, gray Seal, harbor Marsupials Kangaroo, Eastern gray Kangaroo, red Koala Wallaby, Tammar Wallaby, yellow-footed rock Monotremes Echidna, short nosed Pachyderms Elephant, Asian Hippopotamus

Primates Chimpanzee Gibbon, buff-cheeked Gorilla, Western lowland Lemur, ring-tailed Lemur, Sclater's blue eyed Loris, Slow Mandrill Mangabey, red-crowned Monkey, black-handed spider Monkey, black howler Monkey, crested capuchin Monkey, DeBrazza's Monkey, Kikuyu colobus Monkey, red-tailed moustached Orangutan Saki, pale-headed Siamang Sifaka, Coquerel's Tamarin, cotton-topped Tamarin, golden lion Rodents and Rabbits Agouti, Brazilian Agouti, St. Vincent Guinea pig Pacarana Porcupine, prehensile-tailed Prairie dog Rabbit, Netherland dwarf Rat, Norway Squirrel, California ground Squirrel, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Western gray

Ungulates (Hooved Mammals) Alpaca Anoa, Lowland Ass, miniature sicilian Babirusa Bongo Camel, Bactrian Chevrotain, greater Malay Deer, Calamian Deer, tufted Duiker, black Duiker, red-flanked Eland, giant Gazelle, Speke’s Gerenuk Giraffe, Masai Goat, alpine Goat, Nubian Goat, Saanen Goat, Toggenburg Goral, Chinese Hog, red river Horse, miniature domestic Ibex, Nubian Markhor, Tadjik Okapi Peccary, Chacoan Pig, bush (Red River hog) Pig, Vietnamese pot-bellied Pig, Visayan warty Pronghorn, peninsular Pudu, Southern Rhinoceros, Indian Serow, Japanese Sheep, Columbian-Rambouillet Hybrid Sheep, desert bighorn Takin, Sichuan Tapir, Central American Tapir, mountain Zebra, Grevy’s

Please click here to see an alphabetical list of all the animals on exhibit at the Zoo.