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No, echidnas are not marsupials. They are monotremes, that is, egg-laying mammals. However, during breeding season, the female does develop a rudimentary pouch in which she incubates her egg, but this is really nothing more than a flap of skin.
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Which is not a pouched mammal a wombat or spiny anteater?
Both spiny anteaters (echidnas) and wombats have a pouch. Wombats are marsupials, like most pouched mammals. Echidnas are not marsupials, but monotremes. Monotremes are egg laying mammals. Echidnas have a pouch so they can carry the egg they lay and, once the egg hatches, the baby echidna.
Why do pademelons lay eggs?
Pademelons do not lay eggs. They are marsupials, and no marsupials lay eggs. The only egg-laying mammals are the monotremes, which include just platypuses and echidnas.
How are wombats born are they born as an egg?
No. The only mammals hatched from eggs are platypuses and echidnas. Wombats are marsupials; therefore they give birth to live young.
What is the special group called when a platypus and echidna?
If you mean genus, e.g. Canines, Felines, etc., then platapusses and echidnas are marsupials
Do Koalas lay eggs?
No. Koalas do not lay eggs, Koalas are mammals, specifically marsupials. Marsupials are pouched mammals, not egg-laying mammals. Mammals give birth to live young, with the exception of monotremes, i.e. platypuses and echidnas, which are also unique to Australia.
Do monotremes have fur?
Yes. Both types of monotremes - platypuses and echidnas - have fur and lay eggs. In addition, echidnas have sharp spines, but these protrude from its body through a layer of thick fur.
Is beaver a rodent marsupial or egg layers?
The beaver is a rodent. Rodents are placental mammals, and beavers are placental mammals, not marsupials, which are pouched mammals. Beavers are also not monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. The only monotremes are latches and echidnas.
Are mammals marsupials?
Yes. All mammals, including marsupials, have the following characteristics:a body covering of fur, skin or hairsuckle the young on mothers' milkwarm-blooded vertebrates which breathe through lungswith the exception of platypuses and echidnas which are monotremes, or egg laying mammals, all other mammals including marsupials give birth to live young
Where are the kangaroo eggs laid?
Kangaroos do not lay eggs. They are marsupials, not monotremes, and therefore are not egg-laying mammals like platypuses and echidnas. Their offspring are born live.
Why don't koalas hatch from eggs?
Quite simply, the egg-laying mammals are restricted to just the monotremes. Koalas are marsupials, not monotremes. The reproductive system of marsupials is made for giving live birth, not for laying eggs. The only egg-laying mammals are echidnas and platypuses.
What is lay eggs?
There are no egg-laying marsupials. There are, however, two types of mammals which are egg-laying, and they are known as monotremes. Platypuses and echidnas are both monotremes, the only known egg-laying mammals.
What is an egg-laying marsupial?
There are no egg-laying marsupials. There are, however, two types of mammals which are egg-laying, and they are known as monotremes. Platypuses and echidnas are both monotremes, the only known egg-laying mammals.
