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== Merit badge requirements ==
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:1. Explain the meaning of "animal," "invertebrate," "vertebrate," and "mammal." Name three characteristic that distinguish mammals from all other animals.
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:2. Explain how the animal kingdom is classified. Explain where mammals fit in the classification of animals. Classify three mammals from phylum through species.
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:3. Do ONE of the following:
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::a. Spend three hours in each of two different kinds of natural habitats or at different elevations. List the different mammal species and individual members that you identified by sight or sign. Tell why all mammals do not live in the same kind of habitat.
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::b. Spend three hours on each of five days on at least a 25-acre area (about the size of 3 1/2 football fields). List the mammal species you identified by sight or sign.
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::c. From study and reading, write a simple history of one nongame mammal that lives in your area. Tell how this mammal lived before its habitat was affected in any way by man. Tell how it reproduces, what it eats, what eats it, and its natural habitat. Describe its dependency upon plants, upon other animals (including man), and how they depend upon it. Tell how it is helpful or harmful to man.
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:4: Do ONE of the following:
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::a. Under the guidance of a nature center or natural history museum, make two study skins of rats or mice. Tell the uses of study skins and mounted specimens respectively.
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::b. Take good pictures of two kinds of mammals in the wild. Record light conditions, film used, exposure, and other factors, including notes on the activities of the pictured animals.
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::c. Write a life history of a native game mammal that lives in your area, covering the points outlined in requirement 3c. List sources for this information.
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::d. Make and bait a tracking pit. Report what mammals and other animals came to the bait.
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|requirements revision= 1979<br>(as "Mammals")
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::e. Visit a natural history museum. Report on how specimens are prepared and cataloged. Explain the purposes of museums.
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::f. Write a report of 500 words on a book about a mammal species.
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::g. Trace two possible food chains of carnivorous mammals from the soil through four stages to the mammal.
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:5. Working with your counselor, select and carry out one project that will influence the numbers of one or more mammals.
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|quote=A mammal may weigh as little as 1/12 ounce, as do some shrews, or as much as 150 tons, like the blue whale. It may spring, waddle, swim, or even fly. But if it has milk for its young, has hair of some kind, is relatively intelligent, and has warm blood, then it is a mammal.
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*1: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal Animal]
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: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrate Invertebrate]
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: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate Vertebrate]
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: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal Mammal definition and three characteristics]
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*2: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_classification Animal kingdom classification]
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: Examples: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog Dog] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat Cat] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox Fox]
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*2c: Nongame mammal examples: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat Bat] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole Mole] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat Rat]
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*4b: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_(food)#North_America Game animals Game animals]
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: Examples: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer Deer] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit Rabbit] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_boar Wild Boar]
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*4g: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_chain Food Chains]
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*5: [[Managing Mammals]]
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Resources include the Mammal Study merit badge worksheet Adobe Acrobat PDF, links, and cross-references to related badges and awards.  ◀Prev  -  Next ▶ 

Mammal Study requires prior counselor approval for requirement(s) #5.

Mammal Study merit badge
Status: Elective
Created: 1985
Replaced: Mammals
BSA Advancement ID: 071
Requirements revision: 1979
(as "Mammals")
Latest pamphlet revision: 2003

Contents

“ A mammal may weigh as little as 1/12 ounce, as do some shrews, or as much as 150 tons, like the blue whale. It may spring, waddle, swim, or even fly. But if it has milk for its young, has hair of some kind, is relatively intelligent, and has warm blood, then it is a mammal. ”

Mammal Study is one of the elective merit badges for the William T. Hornaday awards for Boy Scouts and Varsity Scouts.


Mammal Study merit badge requirements

  1. Explain the meaning of "animal," "invertebrate," "vertebrate," and "mammal." Name three characteristic that distinguish mammals from all other animals.
  2. Explain how the animal kingdom is classified. Explain where mammals fit in the classification of animals. Classify three mammals from phylum through species.
  3. Do ONE of the following:
    a. Spend three hours in each of two different kinds of natural habitats or at different elevations. List the different mammal species and individual members that you identified by sight or sign. Tell why all mammals do not live in the same kind of habitat.
    b. Spend three hours on each of five days on at least a 25-acre area (about the size of 3 1/2 football fields). List the mammal species you identified by sight or sign.
    c. From study and reading, write a simple history of one nongame mammal that lives in your area. Tell how this mammal lived before its habitat was affected in any way by man. Tell how it reproduces, what it eats, what eats it, and its natural habitat. Describe its dependency upon plants, upon other animals (including man), and how they depend upon it. Tell how it is helpful or harmful to man.
  4. Do ONE of the following:
    a. Under the guidance of a nature center or natural history museum, make two study skins of rats or mice. Tell the uses of study skins and mounted specimens respectively.
    b. Take good pictures of two kinds of mammals in the wild. Record light conditions, film used, exposure, and other factors, including notes on the activities of the pictured animals.
    c. Write a life history of a native game mammal that lives in your area, covering the points outlined in requirement 3c. List sources for this information.
    d. Make and bait a tracking pit. Report what mammals and other animals came to the bait.
    e. Visit a natural history museum. Report on how specimens are prepared and cataloged. Explain the purposes of museums.
    f. Write a report of 500 words on a book about a mammal species.
    g. Trace two possible food chains of carnivorous mammals from the soil through four stages to the mammal.
  5. Working with your counselor, select and carry out one project that will influence the numbers of one or more mammals.


The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Boy Scout Requirements, 2012 Edition (BSA Supply No. 34765)

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Please note any errors found in the above requirements on this article's Talk Page.


Notes

Worksheet A FREE workbook for Mammal Study is available here! Adobe Acrobat PDF
with the maps, charts, links, diagrams, and checklists you need!
Or click here to print just the Mammal Study requirements. 		meritbadge.org has PDF and DOC versions of
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Webelos workbooks, and Cub Scout workbooks.
  1. Per the BSA: "You should read the merit badge pamphlet on the subject." Pamphlets (books) are at local Scout Shops and online at ScoutStuff.org.
  2. "Get a signed Merit Badge application from your Scoutmaster." An online, printable Word doc file version is available.
  3. Mammal Study is a popular summer camp merit badge.


Requirement resources

Invertebrate
Vertebrate
Mammal definition and three characteristics
Examples: Dog - Cat - Fox
Examples: Deer - Rabbit - Wild Boar


Related awards

Ecology-related awards


See also

Boy Scout portal
Varsity Scout portal
Venturing portal

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