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Monotremes do not have nipples like most mammals, so the young can't suckle milk. Instead, monotremes have pores that ooze milk. The baby monotremes then lap up the milk.
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∙ 14y agoYes, they do. Although monotremes are egg-layers, they are also mammals precisely because they do feed their young on mothers' milk.
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Does an echidna feed its young milk?
Yes. Although echidnas are egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes, they are fully mammal. The defining characteristic of a mammal is to feed its young on mothers' milk.
What do echidnas feed their young?
Echidnas are mammals, despite being egg-laying mammals, or monotremes. Therefore, like all mammals, they feed their young on mothers' milk.
Is a monotreme also a mammal?
Yes. Monotremes are egg-laying mammals. they are mammals because they feed their young on mothers' milk.
What mammals lay eggs and feed their young on milk from the mother's pores?
These egg-laying mammals are known as monotremes. The group known as monotremes includes just the platypus and the echidna.
How are monotremes and marsupials the same?
Monotremes and marsupials are both mammals. They are warm-blooded vertebrates which have fur and breathe using lungs (instead of gills). As they are mammals, they both feed their young on mothers' milk.
Do all mammals feed from their mothers?
Yes. The fact that these animals feed their young on mothers' milk is one of the defining characteristics of all mammals, including the placentals, marsupials and monotremes.
What is unusual about the method of reproduction in monotremes in mammals?
Monotremes are the only egg-laying mammals. They are fully mammal because they feed their young on mothers' milk. Marsupials are the only mammals to give birth to undeveloped young after a short gestation period. These young are unable to exist independently of their mothers' nourishing teats, and for the most part, they are protected by a pouch, or marsupium - although this is not the case with all marsupials.
Is there any animal which lay eggs and also give milk?
Both the platypus and the echidna are egg-laying mammals. They belong to the group known as monotremes and, like all mammals, they feed their young on mothers' milk.
Does a lyrebird feed its young milk?
Birds do not feed their young on milk. The lyrebird is a bird, so it does not feed its young milk.
What group of vertebrates gives birth to live young?
MammalsAll mammals feed their young on mothers' milk, but there is one group of mammals known as monotremes which actually lay eggs. The platypus and echidna are both egg-laying mammals.
Does a parrot feed milk to their young?
Parrots do not feed their young with milk.
Are birds monotremes?
No, birds are strictly avians. Mammals that lay eggs are considered monotremes.
