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Yes. Platypuses lay eggs for the purpose of reproduction.
Despite laying eggs, platypuses are mammals, because they feed their young on mothers' milk. They also share other characteristics with mammals, such as being warm-blooded, having fur, skin or hair, and breathing via lungs rather than gills. Together with echidnas, platypuses make up the small mammal group known as monotremes, which are the egg-laying mammals.
Once considered to be primitive mammals, this is no longer current scientific thought.
What else can I help you with?
Does a mammal lay a egg?
Only if it's a platypus or an echidna.
Can a mammal lay a egg?
Yes. Egg-laying mammals are called monotremes. They include the platypus and the echidna.
Are there mammal that don't lay egg?
Yes, many of them. Only two mammals lay eggs, the platypus and the echidna.
What type of mammal is a platypus?
A platypus is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal.
What is a bird that does not lay egg and is a mammal called?
There is no such thing. Mammals are one classification, and birds are another. All birds lay eggs. The platypus and the echidna are the only egg-laying mammals.
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.
How does it help a platypus being a mammal and reptile?
The platypus is not a reptile - it is an egg-laying mammal.
Chicken laying mammal?
There is no mammal that lays chickens. Even chickens do not lay chickens: they lay eggs. there are two types of egg-laying mammals (not chicken-laying), and they are the platypus and the echidna.
What category does platypus go in?
Platypuses are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
Is a platypus a rodent?
No. A platypus is not a placental mammal of any type, but a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal.
Is a crocodile an egg laying mammal?
No. A crocodile is an egg-laying reptile. A platypus is an egg-laying mammal.
What is the subdivision of a platypus?
The platypus is a mammal. Specifically, it is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal. It belongs to the family ornithorhynchidae.
