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The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia and Tasmania. Together with the two species of echidna, it is one of the three species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
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Are duck billed platypuses amphibians?
A platypus is an Australian mammal that lays eggs.
What is a echida?
An echidna is a Australian mammal that is a monotreme and lays soft-shelled eggs and has a pouch.
Example of an egg laying mamal?
The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is an Australian mammal that lays eggs.
How do you use monotreme in a sentence?
A Duck-billed Platypus is an Australian example of a monotreme, a mammal that lays eggs.
What kind of animal that lives in aulstalia but is a mammal?
Strangely enough, a platypus, which originates from Australia, is a mammal, even though it lays eggs!
Do animals have belly buttons?
Mammals (other than monotremes) have navels. Other animals do not, because they have no use for them.
What is the other Australian marsupial other than the platypus that lays eggs?
The platypus is not a marsupial: it is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal. Marsupials give birth to live young, and do not lay eggs. The other monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, is the echidna.
A monotreme is a mammal that?
A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs.
What is a warm blooded animal that has fur produces milk swims lives on burrows and lay eggs?
The Australian platypus.
Sea turtle an mammal?
No because it lays eggs. The only mammal that lays eggs is the platypus. It is a reptile.
What very unusual Australian mammal does two things other mammals do not?
The platypus lays eggs, and swims underwater, using its bill (equipped with electroreceptors) to find food.
Why is the giant tortoise a reptile?
It's not born in the water, so its not an amphibian. And its definetly not a bird or a mammal. It lays eggs and is cold blooded, lives on land.
