Comment on Platypuses

• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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