Is a platypus a mammal or a reptile? He has a bill like a duck, a beaver like tail, has hair like a bear, lays eggs like a turtle, a web-feet like a duck, crawl like a reptile, feeds on young on milk as a mammal
Mammals, but contrary to popular belief, they are not the only mammals that lay eggs. They are part of the group of monotremes, which consists of the platypus and echidna four species (also known as spiny anteaters).
mammal
A mammal.
It is known as the only mammal that lays eggs.
It is a mammal, because mammals are the only animals that eat their young milk. :)
a platypus is a mammal, the egg-bearing mammals.
I've always known to be called monotremes, an early form of mammals. They are not the only species.
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It is a mammal.
<A `This is a bill like a> duck ...>
It is a very UN-billed duck-like. a duck's bill is not surported an extension of the elongated bones of the jaw. The bill of a platypus in this particular scaffolding. a duck's bill does not contain thousands and thousands of times and electro-mechano-receptors for detscting prey swimming eyes closed. A bill does Platy.
<<... crawls like a snake ...>>
Not really. It extends more semi-, and shoulder features retain best known mammalian basal. Basal mammals and their ancestors cynodont, were not typical sprawlers like reptiles.
Update 1
"It's like <Connu the only mammal that lays eggs.>>
It would be wrong. His two cousins, the echidnas, have the same attribute.
Update 2
<<It's A mammal, because mammals are the only animals that feed their young milk.>>
This could also be called incorrect. Some birds, for example. pigeons, to produce a parallel form of milk of mammals called pigeon milk. It is fed to their young by a method of beak to beak. This also applies to the flamingos emperor penguins, and possibly others.
n the last part of ur question everything he says unless I misinterpreted what concerns scientists, like the platypus mammals
Platypus is a mammal because it has become the mammary gland, Pinna, hair etc.
Mammal
Posted on May 25, 2010.
