Auburn is a charter member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), currently composed of 13 of the largest Southern public universities in the US and one private university, Vanderbilt. Among the other 12 peer public universities, Auburn is ranked fourth in the 2011 edition of U.S. News & World Report.
A phylum is the second largest way of grouping the animal kingdom. Bears are animals, so they belong in the Kingdom Animalia. Bears are also in a special group called Chordata â¦ (pronounced core-data), which is the same group as Humans, Birds, Fish, Mice and Lizards. Chordata is the phylum bears belong to.
Animals start to get pretty closely related at the level of family. Pandas, bears and raccoons are all mammals and they all share the same order (Carnivora), so they are all related to each other to some extent. The classification that they share is: Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Carnivora.