aquatic mammal

Sea-living warm-blood

An aquatic mammal is a mammal that lives primarily in water.

The category includes whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, walruses, manatees, and sea otters.

Some, like whales and dolphins, spend their entire lives in water; others, like seals, divide time between water and land.

All breathe air and nurse their young with milk.

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sea otter · otter · polar bear · manatee · sea cow · walrus · porpoise · flipper · flipper feet · blubber · ocean · marine · marine life · sea lion · narwhal · dugong · blowhole · pod

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habitat

aquatic mammalterrestrial mammal

Earth-bound warm-blooded animal

bat · camel · elephant · giraffe · lion

taxonomic class within water-dwellers

aquatic mammalfish

Gilled aquatic vertebrate

marine fish · freshwater fish · saltwater fish · bony fish · shark

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