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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what the fuck

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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