0
What else can I help you with?
Are anteaters placental?
Yes. Anteaters are placental mammals because they do not have a pouch like most marsupials, and they do not lay eggs like the monotremes. The echidna, which is sometimes called the "spiny anteater", is not a true anteater. It is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal.
What mammal gives birth that the baby is not an egg and the baby is alive?
is it a seahorse
Where in Australia do anteaters live?
No. The echidna is sometimes known as the spiny anteater, but it is not related in any way to anteaters. Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, whereas anteaters are placental mammals.
Which is not a pouched mammal a wombat or spiny anteater?
Both spiny anteaters (echidnas) and wombats have a pouch. Wombats are marsupials, like most pouched mammals. Echidnas are not marsupials, but monotremes. Monotremes are egg laying mammals. Echidnas have a pouch so they can carry the egg they lay and, once the egg hatches, the baby echidna.
Are spiny anteaters looked after by their parents?
Yes. Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are mammals, meaning they must be looked after by their mother if they are to survive. Even though echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, the female still suckles the young as any other female mammal does. The baby echidna is completely dependent on the mother for several months.
Where do baby mammals develop?
I the mammal is a monotreme, it developes in an egg. If the mammal is in the marsupial group, it develops in a pouch on its mother. If it is a placental mammal, it develops in the placenta.
What is the life cycle of a giant squid?
egg then baby then adult
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.
Are there Anteater in australia?
No, there are no wild anteaters in Australia.Anteaters, which there are currently four species of, are native to Mexico and Central America (which is composed of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Costa Rica and Panama) and, except for the northern tamandua species of anteaters, the continent of South America (Brazil, etc) as far south as Uruguay.The four species of anteaters are northern tamandua, southern tamandua, silky anteater and the giant anteater.However Australia does have a species of ant eating animal called Echidna, which are sometimes called "Spiny Anteaters".Australia also has another ant-eating animal called the Numbat, which was previously called a banded anteater. The numbat is also endangered.However they are not true "anteaters", they just eat ants as part of their diet like many other animals. True anteaters belong to a mammal subfamily called Vermilingua. Meanwhile the echidna is an egg-laying mammal of the Tachyglossidae family and the numbat is a marsupial of the Myrmecobiidae family.The closest relations to anteaters are armadillos.
What is an egg laying mammal that is also called a spiny anteater?
This is the echidna. Echidnas are not related to anteaters at all, but they do eat termites and ants - hence the name. The echidna, along with the platypus, are the world's only two egg-laying mammals. Egg-laying mammals are called monotremes.
Is it possible for a mammal to mate with a non-mammal?
No, because the sperm of the two animals are too different. Even if it did work, the baby/egg wouldn't survive.
Do all anteaters lay eggs?
It bears a single offspring after a gestation period of 190 days, which will stay near the mother until she becomes pregnant again. The baby spends much of the first part of its life riding on its mother's back, until it is nearly half her size The Spiny anteater, more correctly known as the echidna, does lay eggs but it is not an anteater - it is a monotreme, and is completely different from regular anteaters (like the Giant anteater). Regular anteaters are in the family Vermilingua, (also known as xenarthrans and edentates, it contains anteaters, armadillos and sloths) Spiny anteaters are in the family monotremes (also known as Monotremata and egg-laying mammals, it contains Spiny anteaters and the platypus). Yes
