ସ୍ତନ୍ୟପାୟୀ

ସ୍ତନ୍ୟପାୟୀ (; ଶ୍ରେଣୀ Mammalia ) ସମୂହର ପ୍ରାଣୀମାନେ (ନାରୀ) ନିଜ ନବଜାତ ଶିଶୁକୁ ସ୍ତନ୍ୟ ପାନ କରାଇଥାନ୍ତି । ମହିଳାମାନଙ୍କ କ୍ଷେତ୍ରରେ ସ୍ତନ ଗ୍ରନ୍ଥି ଦେଖାଯାଇଥାଏ, ଯାହାକି ସରୀସୃପ କିମ୍ବା ପକ୍ଷୀମାନଙ୍କ କ୍ଷେତ୍ରରେ ଦେଖାଯାଇନଥାଏ । ସ୍ତନ୍ୟପାୟୀ ସମୂହର ଚାରି କୋଠରି ବିଶିଷ୍ଟ ହୃତପିଣ୍ଡ ରହିଥାଏ ଓ ମସ୍ତିସ୍କ ଗଠନ ଅପେକ୍ଷାକୃତ ଉନ୍ନତ ହୋଇଥାଏ ।

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Khalaf-von Jaffa, Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher (2006). Mammalia Palaestina: The Mammals of Palestine. Gazelle: The Palestinian Biological Bulletin. Number 55, July 2006. pp. 1–46.
McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. 
Nowak, Ronald M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936 pp. 

William J. Murphy, Eduardo Eizirik, Mark S. Springer et al., Resolution of the Early Placental Mammal Radiation Using Bayesian Phylogenetics,Science, Vol 294, Issue 5550, 2348–2351, 14 December 2001.
Springer, Mark S., Michael J. Stanhope, Ole Madsen, and Wilfried W. de Jong. 2004. "Molecules consolidate the placental mammal tree". Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19:430–438. (PDF version )
Vaughan, Terry A., James M. Ryan, and Nicholas J. Capzaplewski. 2000. Mammalogy: Fourth Edition. Saunders College Publishing, 565 pp.  (Brooks Cole, 1999)
Jan Ole Kriegs, Gennady Churakov, Martin Kiefmann, Ursula Jordan, Juergen Brosius, Juergen Schmitz. (2006) Retroposed Elements as Archives for the Evolutionary History of Placental Mammals. PLoS Biol 4(4): e91.
David MacDonald, Sasha Norris. 2006. The Encyclopedia of Mammals, 3rd edition. Printed in China, 930 pp. 

 ବାହାର ଲିଙ୍କ 

BBC Wildlife Finder – video clips from the BBC's natural history archive
GlobalTwitcher.com – All species in the world with distribution maps and images
Paleocene Mammals, a site covering the rise of the mammals, paleocene-mammals.de
Evolution of Mammals, a brief introduction to early mammals, enchantedlearning.com
Tree of Life poster – Shows mammals' evolutionary relation to other organisms, tellapallet.com
High-Resolution Images of various Mammalian Brains, brainmaps.org
Mammal Species , collection of information sheets about various mammal species, learnanimals.com
Mikko's Phylogeny Archive , fmnh.helsinki.fi
European Mammal Atlas EMMA from Societas Europaea Mammalogica, European-mammals.org
Marine Mammals of the World—An overview of all marine mammals, including descriptions, multimedia and a key, eti.uva.nl
Mammalogy.org  The American Society of Mammalogists was established in 1919 for the purpose of promoting the study of mammals, and this website includes a mammal image library

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