Classification: Focus on: Mammals shows children how to identify and group mammals according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is a mammal? Where do mammals live? What do mammals eat? And how do mammals keep cool? Along with many others.

The book looks at mammals from monkeys and bears to elephants and meerkats and their young, as well as some more unusual mammals such as mole rats and duck-billed platypuses. It also offers advice on keeping mammals as pets.

The book also contains a useful scale to demonstrate the size of many amphibians in comparison to a human hand or an adult male, along with a topic web, a glossary and some suggestions for extension activities.

Other titles in the series include Classification: Focus on: Amphibians, Classification: Focus on: Birds, Classification: Focus on: Insects, Classification: Focus on: Reptiles and Classification: Focus on: Fish.

This book features in the following series: Animals, Classification Series, Classification-Focus On .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

The author, Stephen Savage, is a biologist, natural history lecturer and Associate Member of the

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: What a difference!
• 2: Where mammals live
• 3: Catching a meal
• 4: Hot and cold
• 5: Getting around
• 6: Mammal young
• 7: Mammal pets
• 8: Unusual mammals
• 9: Scale of mammals
• 10: Activities and Topic web
• 11: Glossary and Find out more