Not at all. The platypus is quite common, though rarely seen in the wild.
The world rarest mammal is believed to be the Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin, according to the website link below.
the duck billed platypus.
A platypus is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal.
The platypus is a monotreme mammal.
The platypus is not a reptile - it is an egg-laying mammal.
The platypus is a mammal. Although it lays eggs in a burrow, and hunts for food in the water, it is a warm-blooded mammal that breathes using lungs, not gills. It also feeds its young on mothers' milk, something which no fish does.
Yes, the platypus is a mammal.
No. A platypus is not a placental mammal of any type, but a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal.
a platypus is a mammal even though it doesn't give live birth. I'm not sure why.
The platypus is a mammal. Specifically, it is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal. It belongs to the family ornithorhynchidae.
The mammal group to which the platypus belong is monotremata.There are only two animals in that group: the platypus and the echidna, and they are known as monotremes.
Platypuses are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
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