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Not necessarily. Adaptations are changes in an animal's features or behaviour which enable it to live in a specific environment. Realistically, laying eggs is not an adaptation for a platypus, as it could just as easily bear live young in its chamber.
An example of an adaptation in a platypus is its feet - they are webbed for swimming but the webbing is retractable, exposing the sharp claws, with which it can dig its burrow.
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Does a platypus produce by laying eggs?
Yes
Does a platypus lay eggs or live young?
A platypus reproduces by laying eggs. Like the echidna, it is a monotreme.
Is a monotreme a mammal that reproduces by laying eggs?
Yes. A monotreme is a mammal that reproduces by laying eggs. The two monotremes are the platypus and the echidna.
How does a rhino have eggs?
No, the only two egg-laying mammals are the echidna and platypus.
Do Echidna lay eggs?
Yes. Like the platypus, the echidna is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal. Monotremes are the only known mammals that reproduce by laying eggs.
Are mammals born in eggs?
Most mammals are not hatched from eggs. Only the monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, reproduce by external eggs. Monotremes include just the platypus, the long-beaked echidna and the short-beaked echidna.
How many eggs can a platypus lay per laying?
1-3 but mainly 2
What is the other Australian marsupial other than the platypus that lays eggs?
The platypus is not a marsupial: it is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal. Marsupials give birth to live young, and do not lay eggs. The other monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, is the echidna.
What venomous mammal is a egg laying marsupial?
You're thinking of the platypus, which lays eggs and can eject venom. But the platypus isn't a marsupial. No marsupial lays eggs or is venomous. The platypus is part of a small group called the Monotremes.
Does a platypus lay eggs while giving birth?
A female platypus lays eggs which later hatch into young platypuses. The platypus is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal, a characteristic shared only with the two species of echidna.
Example of an egg laying mamal?
The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is an Australian mammal that lays eggs.
What does lay eggs?
mammals Correction: There are two types of egg-laying mammals - the platypus and the echidna.
