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What is the other Australian marsupial other than the platypus that lays eggs?
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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.
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Is a platypus an Australian marsupial?
No. The platypus is an Australian monotreme. The platypus is found nowhere else in the world apart from Australia. However, it is not a marsupial, as marsupials give both to live young. The platypus is classified as a monotreme because it is a mammal that lays eggs.
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.
Do animals have belly buttons?
Mammals (other than monotremes) have navels. Other animals do not, because they have no use for them.
What Australian marsupial lay eggs?
There are two egg-laying mammals in Australia. They are the platypus and the short-beaked echidna. The only other egg-laying mammal is the long-beaked echidna, which is only found in New Guinea.
What two mammals in the world that lay eggs?
The echidna and the platypus, which are both Australian.
Are duck billed platypuses amphibians?
A platypus is an Australian mammal that lays eggs.
What are the two Australian animals that are the only mammals in the world that hatch from eggs?
platypus and echidna
Example of an egg laying mamal?
The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is an Australian mammal that lays eggs.
How do you use monotreme in a sentence?
A Duck-billed Platypus is an Australian example of a monotreme, a mammal that lays eggs.
Do marsupial moles lay eggs?
No. All marsupials give birth to live, undeveloped young. Monotremes are the only mammals to lay eggs. Monotremes include just the platypus and the echidna.
What very unusual Australian mammal does two things other mammals do not?
The platypus lays eggs, and swims underwater, using its bill (equipped with electroreceptors) to find food.
What is a warm blooded animal that has fur produces milk swims lives on burrows and lay eggs?
The Australian platypus.
