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How are the spiny anteater and the platypus different from other mammals?
The correct name for the spiny anteater is echidna. The echidna and platypus are different from other mammals because they are the only egg-laying mammals. All other mammals, both placentals and marsupials, give live birth.
Why is it incorrect to call the echidna a spiny ant eater?
The echidna is sometimes called a spiny anteater, but it bears no relation to anteaters. Anteaters are placental mammals, and echidnas are monotremes (egg-laying mammals).
Are the spiny anteater and platypus amphibians?
The "spiny anteater" is only a nickname for echidna. Echidnas and platypuses are monotremes which means egg laying mammals.
What is the correct name for a spiny anteater?
The spiny anteater, more correctly known as the echidna,is a monotreme. This means it is an egg-laying mammals, one of only two such types of animals in the world. The other monotreme is the platypus.
Does the spiny anteater and platypus lay eggs?
Yes. The correct name for the spiny anteater is echidna. The echidna and the platypus are both egg-laying mammals. They are known as monotremes.
What species is the spiny anteater from?
The spiny anteater is more correctly known as the echidna. There are two species of echidna, the long-beaked echidna of New Guinea and the short-beaked echidna of Australia. Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
Why was the spiny anteater hard to classify as a mammal?
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.
What is the echidna's other name?
The echidna is sometimes known as the spiny anteater.
What is the synonym for echidna 'spines'?
Spiny Anteater is another name for the echidna. However, echidnas are not related to anteaters at all, despite the name. Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, while anteaters a placental mammals. Echidnas have sharp spines, hence the name 'spiny' and they feed primarily on termites, as well as ants.
What animal is Knuckles?
Knuckles is a "Echidna". Echidnas are small mammals that are covered with coarse hair and spines. Superficially they resemble the anteaters of South America and other spiny mammals like hedgehogs and porcupines.Knuckles is an echidna, an animal similar to a hedgehog.
Are spiny anteaters monotremes?
Yes. The spiny anteater, more correctly known as the echidna, is a monotreme. This means it is an egg-laying mammal which feeds its young on mothers' milk, one of only two such types of animals in the world. The other monotreme is the platypus.
Does a spiny anteater have fur?
All mammals have fur or hair. That includes spiny anteaters (echidnas). The spines on the echidna are actually modified hairs.
