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The spiny anteater, also known as the echidna, belongs to the order Monotremata along with the platypus. This order is for egg-laying mammals, and the platypus and echidna are the only egg-laying mammals known to man. All other mammals give birth to live young. The echidna was hard to classify because it had all the other attributes of a mammal besides giving birth to live young.
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Why are some vertebrates hard to classify?
Because some animals have features of different groups of vertebrate. For example the duck built platypus is classified as a mammal but has some bird (a beak) and it lays eggs which a mammal doesn't do.
How does an anteaters fur feel like?
Well, I came across an Echidna (short-nosed anteater) in Australia last month and stroked it and it was the most uncuddly animal you could imagine, hard and spiny
What is a good sentence for classify?
We will classify this new species as a mammal.How do you classify this, Mister Burns?
Why would it have been difficult for Von Linnea to classify Euglena?
because eugleana is hard to classify
Why is it difficult to classify the zorse?
Zebras and Horses are two different species. So when offspring is produced from a zebra and a horse it produces a cross-breed or hybrid. Hybrids are infertile and are hard to classify. They are hard to classify because they are both horse and zebra so it is hard to decide which species to classify them as.
Is a sea star an animal with a hard spiny covering and tubed feet?
a starfish. durhh
Why is a sea spider hard to classify?
Because It <u>IS</u>
Why are euglenoids unique algae?
because they are so hard to classify
Is an anteaters nose soft?
No, you can try it...but it does not. The anteater's snout is made of bone on the inside.
What does a seahorse feel like?
They are very hard and prickly because of their spiny scales.
Are crayfish a mammal?
No, crayfish are invertebrates, as they have an external hard covering, and they do no not suckle their young!
Which is the scaly mammal?
Pangolins are covered in large, hard, horny scales.Armadillos.
