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Platypuses and spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. They both reproduce via sexual reproduction.
Platypuses lay eggs in a chamber at the end of a burrow dug into a riverbank or next to a creek. The eggs hatch into young platypuses after about ten days. The babies initially feed off mothers' milk, drinking from grooves on the mother's abdomen where it seeps from glands, rather than attaching to teats.
For echidnas, after mating, there is a gestation period for the egg of 23 days. During breeding season, the female develops a rudimentary pouch which is really just a flap of skin. When it comes time to lay her egg, she curls tightly into a ball and lays it directly in this pouch, where it is incubated for around 10 days. The young emerge blind and hairless, and stay in the pouch, suckling for two to three months.
Echidnas are terrestrial animals which move by walking on four legs. The platypus also has four legs. When on land, it walks. When in water, it swims. Its feet have retractable webbing between the toes.
Adult platypuses do not have teeth, so they "chew" their food by grinding it between horny plates on their upper and lower jaws. Echidnas eat by using their long, sticky tongues to capture termites and ants. This is why they are sometimes called "spiny anteaters".
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Do platypuses and spiny anteaters give birth to young alive?
No. Platypuses and spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. The young are hatched, not born.
How do spiny anteaters move?
Spiny anteaters, or echidnas, move with their feet.
How do spiny anteaters reproduce?
The correct name for the spiny anteater is "echidna". This unusual animal is an egg-laying mammal, or monotreme and one of just two types of mammals that lay eggs in order to reproduce. The only other egg-laying mammal is the platypus. Echidnas and platypuses are completely mammal in every other way, even feeding their young on others' milk.
Why do spiny anteaters are spiny?
Because the name is spiny which makes them spiny
How do spiny anteaters and duckbill platypuses differ from reptiles?
Quite aimply, echidnas and platypuses are mammals. They are warm-blooded, unlike cold-blooded reptiles, with a covering of fur, rather than scaly skin.
How many eggs do opossums lay?
True anteaters do not lay eggs.True anteaters should not be confused with "Spiny anteaters", more properly known as echidnas. These creatures are monotremes, meaning that they are egg-laying mammals, like platypuses.
How many legs do anteaters have?
Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, have four legs.
Do spiny anteaters have lungs?
Yes. Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are mammals. All mammals breathe using lungs. Therefore, echidnas have lungs.
What do spiny anteaters use for shelter?
Spiny anteaters, more properly known as echidnas, may shelter in hollow or rotting logs; they may dig burrows; or they shelter under bushes.
Why is it incorrect to call the echidna a spiny ant eater?
The echidna is sometimes called a spiny anteater, but it bears no relation to anteaters. Anteaters are placental mammals, and echidnas are monotremes (egg-laying mammals).
How do you keep spiny anteaters out of garden?
Kill the ants in your back yard.
Do spiny anteaters have hair and spines?
Yes. The spiny anteater, more correctly known as the echidna, has both fur and spines.
