• 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

        • 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