In the combined concentration- and extermination camps, Majdanek and Auschwitz, the SS chose those able to work for the work camps. Those unable to work â the old, women and children â were immediately sent to the gas chambers or shot in the camp hospital.
Full Definition of MAMMAL. : any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans.â mamÂ·maÂ·liÂ·an \mÉ-ËmÄ-lÄ-Én, ma-\ adjective or noun. a warm-blooded animal (as a dog, mouse, bear, whale, or human being) with a backbone that feeds its young with milk produced by the mother and has skin usually more or less covered with hair.
All About Mammals Â© Contributed by Leanne Guenther. Mammals are one of the 6 main classes of animals. Animal classes are groups of animals that scientists consider to be alike in some important ways. Mammals are the animal class that people belong to. There are only about 4,000 kinds of mammals. This sounds like a lot, but when you consider there are 21,000 kinds of fish and a whopping 800,000 kinds of insects youâll realize mammals are a pretty small class!