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Yes. The platypus is a mammal and all mammals have lungs. Even marine mammals such as dolphins and whales must use lungs to breathe. When swimming, the platypus must surface regularly to breathe.
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How many lungs do platypus have?
The platypus has two lungs, like all mammals do.
Do platypus and anteater have lungs?
yes
Does a platypus breath with lungs?
Yes.
Does a platypus breathe through gills?
No. Platypuses have lungs.
Is a platypus a bird or a fish?
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.
What group of animale lay eggshavi hair or furhave 4 legs and breathes air through lungs?
duck billed platypus.
How does a platypus obtain oxygen?
The platypus frog is also known as the Gastric brooding frog. Like other frogs, when they are tadpoles, they breathe using gills and a spiracle. When they have completed their metamorphosis, they breathe using lungs, and through their skin while they are in the water.
Why is it hard to class the platypus as a mammal?
It is not hard to class the platypus as a mammal. The defining characteristic of a mammal is that it feeds its young on mother's milk - which a platypus does. The platypus also shares several other characteristics with other mammals. It is covered with fur; it is warm-blooded; it breathes using lungs. The only way it is different to other mammals is that, like the echidna, it lays eggs, instead of giving birth to live young.
What is Platypus bill?
a platypus's bill is a bill that is on a platypus
What is a platypus's bill?
a platypus's bill is a bill that is on a platypus
How does an echidna obtain oxygen?
An echidna is a monotreme (egg-laying mammal) along with the platypus. It uses lungs and breathes in air to obtain oxygen just like people.
Why is a platypus not quite a mammal and not quite a bird?
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
