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The platypus and the echidna are both monotremes, that is, egg-laying mammals. There are actually three known species of egg-laying mammals, or monotremes. They are the platypus and short-beaked echidna of Australia, and the long-beaked echidna of Papua New Guinea. The echidna is sometimes called the spiny anteater.

They are mammals because, like all mammals, they suckle their young on mothers' milk.

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