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Is an elephant a marsupial placental or monotreme?
Elephants are placental mammals.
Is an elephant a marsupial?
No, elephants are not marsupials. Elephants are considered placental mammals.
Is a tiger a marsupial or a placental animal?
Elephants are placental mammals. Marsupials have a pouch (which elephants don't) and monotremes lay eggs (which elephants CERTAINLY don't)
What are the seven placental mammals?
Humans, dogs, pigs, cows, horses, dolphins, possums, and elephants are all placental mammals but there are others as well.
Are elephants marsupials or are they monotremes?
Neither. Elephants are placental mammals, which form a different group of mammals from either the marsupials (pouched mammals) or the monotremes (egg-laying mammals).
Is a whale a marsupial?
Seals are placental mammals, as the young complete their development within the mother's uterus, attached to a placenta. They do not have a pouch like most marsupials, and they do not lay eggs like monotremes.
How are placental mammals classified?
Placental mammals are grouped into Xenartha (anteaters, sloths, and armadillos), Afrotheria (elephant shrews, tenrecs, golden moles, elephants, aardvarks, manatees, dugongs, and hyraxes), Euarchontoglires (rodents, rabbits, hares, pikas, tree shrews, colugos, and primates), and Laurasiatheria (hedgehogs, shrews, moles, solenodons, bats, whales, dolphins, porpoises, even-toed hoofed mammals, odd-toed hoofed mammals, pangolins, and carnivores). Each of these is further divided into orders, which are divided into families, which are divided into genera, which are divided into species. There are 21 orders and 132 families of placental mammals.
What are two placental mammals?
Almost all mammals are 'placental'. Humans, tigers, dogs, cats, cows, mice, elephants, etc.
WHere do placental animals live?
All placental animals are mammals. Placental mammals are the most successful of the major mammal groups (the other two being the marsupials and the monotremes). Everything from rodents to dogs to cows and even elephants, even you, are placental mammals. In fact, they are found on every continent and in virtually every habitat on Earth.
Do placental mammals have fur?
Terrestrial placental mammals do have fur or hair. Marine placental mammals do not.
In placental mammals is a baby nourished with milk after birth?
Yes. This is a feature of all mammals, and if this did not occur, the animal would not be classified as a mammal.
What two placental mammals lay eggs?
There are no placental mammals which lay eggs.The only two egg-laying mammals in existence are the platypus and the echidna, which are classed as monotremes.They are still classified as mammals because they feed their young on mothers' milk - a characteristic unique to mammals alone.
