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What season are baby platypuses born in?
Platypuses are not born - they are hatched as platypuses are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.The platypus breeding season is spring and summer, from about September through to February, sometimes extending to March.
How much does a platypus weigh when it's born?
A baby platypus is not born, but hatched. When hatched, it weighs around half a gram.
Are PLATYPUSES born alive?
Are PLATYPUSES born alive?
Can a platypus walk on the day it is born?
No. Firstly, platypuses are not born: they are hatched. Platypuses are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. When they are hatched, they are blind, hairless and completely helpless. A newly hatched baby platypus is about the size and weight of a bean.
How heavy is a platypus when it is born?
Platypuses are not born: they are hatched. A newly hatched baby platypus weighs about the same as a bean, which would perhaps be about 0.5 grams.
What size are platypuses when they are born?
Platypuses are not born: they are hatched. They are just a couple of centimetres in length when first born.
Are Platypuses born naked?
Platypuses are not born. They are hatched. Platypuses are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. And yes, when first hatched, they are completely furless.
What time of year are platypuses born?
Platypuses are not born: they are hatched. They are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. The platypus breeding season is spring and summer, from about September through to February, sometimes extending to March. Baby platypuses are incubated by the mother for about ten days before hatching. Hatching can take place anytime during the breeding season.
How many baby platypus babies are born at once?
Platypuses are not born; they are hatched. The female lays between one and three eggs each breeding season.
If one parent has beta thalassemia what are the chances the baby will inherit the condition?
If one parent is a carrier then the baby has a 50% chance of being born a carrier as well, but the baby will be healthy as the gene is recessive.
Is a baby platypus born in a den?
No. To begin with, platypuses are not born; they are hatched from eggs.Secondly, they are hatched in a chamber at the end of a very long burrow which the mother digs in the bank of a creek or river.
How do baby platypuses find their food after being born?
After being hatched (not born), baby platypuses initially feed exclusively on mothers' milk. Like other mammals, they move by instinct, and lured by the smell, to the mother's abdomen, where they feed on milk that is secreted through modified sweat glands, rather than teats.As they get older, they are shown by the mother platypus how to find food in rivers and creeks.
