ooh, that's interesting! I assume they lay eggs, but still produce milk to feed their babies once hatched? that seems to be the other thing that defines an animal as a mammal!
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Also the echidna is an egg layiing mammal.
I thought the definition of a mammal, was mammary glands?
yeah, it is - though there are a number of other defining factors.
it's only,that, as a kid, I was taught that the way to identify a mammal is that they give birth to live young, rather than. lay eggs - i guess that was slightly simplified as we were pretty young - and until today, I wasn't aware that there are a few exceptions to the live birth rule!
Today (well, recently) I learned why men are really asked the question, "What side to you dress on?" when being fitted for trousers. Not that I've ever given it much thought. Honest.
Most on the left.
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Today I learned there’s the most ridiculous thing as a Boo Box, filled with Halloween stuff, given to children in Halloween Eve …. WTF….. No wonder people are broke!
And we are raising a generation of spoiled, entitled children.
Don’t want to sound pedantic, but in Australia we learn that the platypus and wombat are marsupials, which are slightly different to a mammal!
True!
ah, so perhaps it is true that all mammals give birth to live young - which is what I was taught! i love this thread, always learning things!
as if Christmas eve boxes weren't bad enough when kids are getting a load of presents the next day, now we have "halloween eve"
and if Boo boxes irritate you, wait til you hear about Burr baskets!
a box/basket/bag filled with a mix of pairs of fluffy socks, face masks, skin care products, sachets of hot chocolate, scented candles, chocolates etc - for kids, it's more plushies, pyjamas, squishies, sweets, and wasteful plastic tat which will end up dumped in landfill - given at the beginning of autumn - the "ber" months.
Women are constantly being distracted with consumerism while men burn the world down.as if Christmas eve boxes weren't bad enough when kids are getting a load of presents the next day, now we have "halloween eve"
and if Boo boxes irritate you, wait til you hear about Burr baskets!
a box/basket/bag filled with a mix of pairs of fluffy socks, face masks, skin care products, sachets of hot chocolate, scented candles, chocolates etc - for kids, it's more plushies, pyjamas, squishies, sweets, and wasteful plastic tat which will end up dumped in landfill - given at the beginning of autumn - the "ber" months.
I forgot about marsupials even though I inwardly noted they were marsupials.
Are they still classified as a type of mammal? These days I mean?
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I thought that too about them carrying the baby kangaroo!but to perhaps make you feel less alone in your animal knowledge, it is only recently I found out that kangaroo babies are born when they are still an embryo, only spending a month inside her before being born tiny little jellybean sized, blind and without any hair, they crawl by themselves into their mother's pouch - using their two front paws to climb using her hair - which serves as an external womb, they latch onto one of her nipples in place of an umbilical cord, and the fetus grows until the joey is ready to be "born" 7 or 8 months later! I always though the pouch was just a way the kangaroo carried her baby after it was born, not that it literally grew into a full-size kangaroo inside it! that's why baby kangaroos often want to be carried in their mama's pouch - because it feels safe & familiar to them, like being back in the womb and it is also in the pouch where they are fed milk after birth.
ALSO a kangaroo can get pregnant while she still has a baby that isn't ready to be born in her pouch, but she can't grorw two babies at once, so after fertilisarion, her body pauses the pregnancy at the embryonic stage, and when the baby she is already carrying reaches full-term, her body knows to reactivate the pregnancy and the embryo that has been. on pause for potentially over 200 days begins to develop!
literally blew my mind!