The only other egg-laying mammal is the echidna which, like the platypus, is classified as a monotreme. There are two species of echidnas: the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) of Australia, and the long-beaked echidna (Zaglosssus bruijni) of New Guinea. There are several sub-species of the long-beaked echidna: the Western long-beaked echidna, Sir David's long-beaked echidna and the Eastern long-beaked echidna.
The Yucca Flower is the New Mexican state flower. It look something like an upside down tulip. It was selected by New Mexico schoolchildren and supported by the New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs, was approved by the eighth regular session of the legislature of New Mexico. House Bill No. 371, naming the "Yucca flower" the "official Flower of the State of New Mexico" was adopted on March 14, 1927.
The legislation does not specify a particular species of yucca flower or even indicate that "all" species are intended to represent New Mexico.
The Yucca Flower is the New Mexico's state flower.
How do you spell mammal in English?
Cow: Moo
Horse: Neigh
Pig: Oink
Chicken: Cluck
Lion: Roar
Sheep: Baa
Snake: Hiss
Bird: Chirp
Etc.
There are just two types of egg-laying mammals. They are the platypus and the echidna.
These animals, known as monotremes, lay eggs for the purpose of reproduction. They lay eggs via sexual intercourse as all mammals do.
Where on a sting ray are the mammary glands?
Stingrays don't have mammary glands. Mammary glands are only found on mammals. Stingrays are fish.
What is the name of a seal home?
Seals and sea lions don't have a 'home' as such. They spend a lot of time out at sea, feeding. Then they spend a lot of time, having hauled themselves out on to a secluded beach or onto an iceflow, in basking and generally lazing about, sleeping.
Contrast the structure and function of incisors and molars?
Structure: Incisors, which are located in the front of the mouth, are thin compared to molars, which are located in the back of the mouth.
Function: Incisors are used to break off or cut food with. Molars are used to crush, mash, or mince food to prepare it for digestion.
How do wolves sneak up on their prey?
Ryan and mason are awsome.
they tell there pray a joke then invite them for a sleepover
What is necessary in order for a mammal to be endothermic?
Mammals are endothermic (warm-blooded) because they can create their own body heat by metabolizing food, as heat is generated by the oxidation of food molecules.
Yes.
All mammals have babies, otherwise there would be no more of each species.
Most mammals give birth to live young. The platypus and echidna lay eggs, from which the young hatch, but they still reproduce and have babies.
Do reindeer shed their antlers?
Deer shed their antlers annually for the regeneration, or re-growth, of new ones.
The entire shedding process takes two to three weeks to complete, and the re-growth phase takes place over the summer. The docile male deer that, with the exception of the male and the female reindeer, solely sports antlers, sheds them between January and April, after the autumn mating season draws to a close. He can do without antlers at this time, because his need for them in prior months, to attract and to impress females for his harem of mates, and to fight with his competitors for the females affections, no longer exists.
Yes. Mammals are the only animal group that can have hair.
Invertebrates such as certain species of spiders and insects have hair-like structures called setae, not hair. The two are quite different. Hair/fur is one of the defining characteristics of mammals.
What eats the elephant grass in the savanna?
Elephants eat elephant grass. Other large grazing animals such as the zebra, and the bongo, who live in Africa also eat this grass. Smaller animals are unable to eat it.
Does mammals have fur or hair and breathe with lungs?
no
not all mammals have lungs
sharks are the only mammals that breathe through their lungs.....
Do you mean in absolute terms or in relative terms? In other words, do you want to know the weakest animal pound for pound?
Let me put it yet another way. I can lift more than an ant even on my worst and laziest day. But pound for pound, I cannot come close to lifting as much as an ant does. An ant can lift many many times its own body weight, but I can hardly lift a 12-oz beer to my lips some days.
Okay, I never have any trouble lifting a beer to my lips, but you get the point.
Come to think of it, pound for pound, human beings aren't that strong. We rely mostly on our superior brain power to survive.
Which, for some of us, is not very good news.
Because all animals use similar molecules in their muscles, the muscles of all animals is (very roughly) the same strength in terms of force per cross sectional area.
However, an animal twice as long typically has muscles roughly four times the cross sectional area (resulting in 4 times the force), but a body weight roughly eight times as much.
Because of that power law scaling, the bigger an animal is, the more absolute force its muscles can produce, but the less of that force can be applied to the outside world -- more of that force is required just to move the muscle itself around.
And so the animals that can lift the most weight relative to the total weight of the animal are generally the smallest animals -- ants, fleas, etc.
The single animals that can move the biggest weights (absolute) strength are generally the largest single animals -- elephants, Clydesdale horses, etc.
The weakest animal would be bacteria because they have no form of defense and can be killed easily.
However, most people put "bacteria" in its own category, neither animal nor plant.
There are a few species in the family "Animalia" that have no muscles: the sponges and Placozoa.
Some people say that Humans are the weakest animals in the world but think about ants, cats, hamsters, stuff like that . So really there's no right answer.
How are echidnas different from other mammals?
Several things make the platypus different from other mammals:
Why do mammals feed their young with milk?
Mammals produce milk with their mammary glands. We, as humans, have mammary glands used to produce milk for our babies. Hormones play a part as well.
Why is a monotreme different from placental mammals and marsupial mammals?
Eutherians, or placental mammals nurse their young in a womb. Protherians like platypus lay eggs and do not have teats but ooze milk through the skin. Marsupials only nurse the young in the body for a very short time before they are born. The progeny live in a pouch suckling for months after birth until old enough to emerge.
What large plant-eating African mammal eats plants?
There are quite a number of plant eating mammals in Africa. Some of them are elephants, rhinos, giraffes, and antelopes.
In what period did mammals develop?
The earliest direct evidence for true mammalian life lies in a single fossilized brain case, found in China and described by Zhe-Xi Luo and Ai-Lin Sun in the 2001 issue of Science. The find, named Hadrocodium wui, dates to around 195 million years ago, placing the origin of true mammals sometime before the early Jurassic Period and perhaps even the late Triassic Period.