• Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    87·
    2 months ago

    They also don’t have nipples (though do have mammary glands) and mother platypuses basically sweat milk through their skin for the pups to collect off their fur

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin English
        27·
        2 months ago

        The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.

        • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          So I guess that’s partly why most mammals’ milk glands are in the abdomen. Other than primates, I only know that elephants also have mammaries on the breasts

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        You got an ancestor that did that too. Part of why platypuses are so damn weird is because mammalian ancestors kept facing evolutionary bottlenecks. Platypuses are more like proto mammals than us placentals