please also include it’s classification.
(kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)

thanks!

Jeanette, good question. I have a lot of mammal books, the best being Walker’s Mammals of the World. Sometimes I flip through my books until a mammal catches my eye. I try not to only draw ones I know and like. Sometimes, like with this flying lemur and the next six mammals I’m posting, I’m trying to cover specific species; in this case, I wanted to be sure I’d drawn a mammal from every order in my first year of drawing mammals. And that’s where the list comes in: a spreadsheet I downloaded from the Smithsonian’s mammal department that lists the scientific names of all the known mammals. I was able to sort it by order and see which I hadn’t drawn yet. You can download my spreadsheet from the link in the post just after this one.