No. Platypuses do not have gills. They are mammals and, like all mammals, breathe using lungs. Even aquatic mammals such as whales and dolphins have lungs rather than gills. Only fish and juvenile amphibians have gills.
No. Platypuses have lungs.
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The platypus is a mammal. Although it lays eggs in a burrow, and hunts for food in the water, it is a warm-blooded mammal that breathes using lungs, not gills. It also feeds its young on mothers' milk, something which no fish does.
The only furred animals which lay eggs are the three species of mammals which lay eggs, known as monotremes. The only known monotremes are the platypus, the short-beaked echidna and the long-beaked echidna.
The animal you are describing is the platypus. It is a unique monotreme, meaning it is one of the few mammals that lay eggs. The platypus has gills during its early developmental stages, a pouch for carrying its young, and webbed feet, which are adapted for swimming. These distinct features make it one of the most unusual mammals in the animal kingdom.
The platypus is completely a mammal, and not even remotely a bird. It has all the characteristics of mammals, except that it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.The platypus shares the following characteristics with other mammals:a skin covering of fur or hairwarm-bloodedvertebratebreathes using lungs (not gills)suckles its young on mothers' milk via mammary glands
a platypus's bill is a bill that is on a platypus
a platypus's bill is a bill that is on a platypus
The catfish is classified as a fish, not a mammal. It is cold-blooded, lays eggs, and breathes through gills. *It should be noted that some mammals do lay eggs, they are known as monotremes, and they include the platypus and the echidna.
Ornithorhynchus anatinusThe original name was Platypus anatinus, from Greek and Latin words meaning "flat-footed, duck-like". After realising that the name "platypus" had already be given to a group of beetles, the scientist involved assigned the platypus the scientific name of Ornithorhynchus anatinus, the first word of which means "bird-like snout".