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What kind of creature does the echidna come from?
The echidna does not come from any other creature. It is simply a member of an unusual egg-laying infraclass of mammals known as monotremes.
What kind of an animal is an echidna?
The echidna is a monotreme. It is an egg-laying mammal.
Why are the platypus and echidna not recognised as egg laying mammals?
The platypus and echidna are recognised as egg-laying mammals. They are monotremes, which are egg-laying mammals.
Is an echidna the only egg laying marsupial?
The echidna is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal. Most mammals give live birth, but only the echidna and platypus are egg-laying mammals.
An egg laying mammal that is also called the spiny anteater?
This is the echidna. There are two species of echidna, which is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal. One species is the short-beaked echidna of Australia, and the other is the long-beaked echidna of New Guinea.
What are the other mammals that are egg-laying mammals?
The egg-laying mammals, or monotremes, are the platypus, the long-beaked echidna and the short-beaked echidna.
What is a sentence with the word echidna in it?
The echidna is one of only two types of monotremes in the world.Like the platypus, the echidna is an egg-laying mammal.
What does a echidna egg look like?
Echinacea
Is an echidna one of the mammals that lays eggs?
Yes. The echidna is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal. Platypuses and echidnas are the only egg-laying mammals.
What is the echidna's family?
The echidna belongs to the family Tachyglossidae, which is in the group of egg-laying mammals known as monotremes.
Why is the echidna's reproduction weird?
The echidna's reproduction is not weird. It just so happens that the echidna, like the platypus, is a monotreme, meaning it is an egg-laying mammal.
What is a mammal that starts with a p and lays eggs?
All egg-laying mammals are called monotremes.There are two types of egg-laying mammals. The platypusand the echidna are both egg-laying mammals, or monotremes. They are still classified as mammals because they feed their young on mothers' milk - a characteristic unique to mammals alone.There are just three known species of egg-laying mammals, or monotremes. They are the platypus and short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) of Australia, and the long-beaked echidna (Zaglosssus bruijni) of Papua New Guinea. The echidna is sometimes called the spiny anteater, and there are several sub-species of the long-beaked echidna: the Western long-beaked echidna, Sir David's long-beaked echidna and the Eastern long-beaked echidna.
