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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.
What is one echidna characteristic that is shared with other mammals?
As with all mammals, the echidna feeds its young on mothers' milk.
What are the other mammals that are egg-laying mammals?
The egg-laying mammals, or monotremes, are the platypus, the long-beaked echidna and the short-beaked echidna.
How is a platypus different from other species?
The platypus and the echidna are the only egg-laying mammals, i.e. monotremes.
How does the spiny echidna differ from most other mammals?
The echidna, also known as the spiny anteater, is different from most other mammals because it is a mammal that lays eggs. It is a monotreme, meaning it is an egg-laying mammal. The only other mammal species which lays eggs is the platypus.
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.
Platypuses are one of the 2 mammals that do what?
Platypuses are one of the 2 mammals that lay eggs. The other is the echidna.
What are monotreme mammals?
Monotremes are mammals which lay eggs, as opposed to all other mammals which give birth to live young. The only mammals which are monotremes are the platypus and short-beaked echidna of Australia, and the long-beaked echidna of New Guinea.
Is an echidna the only egg laying marsupial?
The echidna is a monotreme, which is an egg-laying mammal. Most mammals give live birth, but only the echidna and platypus are egg-laying mammals.
What is something that makes a rabbit different from other mammals?
Its fur
What makes a bat different from other mammals?
Bats can fly.
Why are the platypus and echidna unusual mammals?
The platypus and echidna are unusual mammals because they are the world's only known monotremes, i.e. egg-laying mammals. Though egg-layers, they are classified as mammals because the young suckle mothers' milk.
