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Inside zoology, mammalogy is the study of mammals, a class of vertebrates with characteristics like homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems. Mammalogy has too been referred to as "mastology," "theriology," & "therology."
3 major subdivisions of mammalian come monotremes, marsupials and placentals. An crucial characteristic for classifying mammalian is their dentition: this is because dentition hold out a longest fallowing an fleshly's dying.
Mammalogy branches off into more taxonomically-oriented disciplines like primatology (study of primates), cetology (study of cetaceans), equinology (or hippology, study of horses), and cynology (study of dogs).
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