How do eels care for their young?

Answer 1

During the breeding season, a female echidna develops a rudimentary pouch - just a flap of skin - on its abdomen. The female echidna manages to lay a single egg in its pouch, and incubates the egg there. When the young hatches, it is fed on mother's milk which seeps from milk glands, not teats like other mammals. The young remain in a burrow, not the pouch, to continue their development. This is their most vulnerable stage, as snakes often enter the burrows and eat the young.

Answer 2

Once the female emu lays her eggs, the male incubates them. The male also looks after the young chicks once they hatch. Once emu chicks are old enough, they forage along side their parents, seeking food such as insects, and fresh vegetation.

Answer 3

Echidnas and platypuses are both mammals, so they feed their young on mothers' milk.

Platypuses and echidnas do not suckle their young quite like other mammals do. They do not have nipples. Platypuses exude milk from specialised sweat glands which run into grooves on their abdomen, and the young platypuses scoop this up in their bill.

When feeding, baby echidnas prod a small patch of skin inside the pouch. This pouch is where the egg is laid, and is little more than a flap of skin which the mother develops during the breeding season. The patch of skin also exudes milk on which the young echidna can feed.

Answer 4

Eels die before their younge are born and after that the baby eels have to feed themselves !

Answer 5

To pass on their DNA to future generations.

Answer 6

echidnas care for their young by having them in a pouch