Mammals Monotremata

The world is filled with animals, there is life on the highest mountain peak, towing a deep, tropical jungle and rain on land ice in the polar regions. Some animals there is a strange and unfamiliar environment we see around us or like our pets at home, but they are both animals and apparently only a form of being different. Rescuing animals is very important that the existing wildlife remains can be preserved so that wildlife preservation is wonderful for the future and viability of this earth. My blog we will learn about a variety of animal species.

Mammalian vertebrates is most known for humans included. General characteristics of mammals is a body full of fur and hair, warm-blooded, and feed the baby from milk produced by mammary gland stem females. But not all mammals so, such as whales and elephants that have no hair and feathers. and there are some mammals that sleep during winter (hibernation). Mammals also have a heart, In this world, consists of 5500 species of mammals. 

Mammals consists of three groups, namely: 

Monotremata

Monotremata mammals that lay eggs instead of child-bearing. Monotremata was formerly a rare mammal found in Australia and New Guinea, monotremata a primitive mammal, and most of these egg-laying mammal-like reptiles or birds.

The animals Monotremata 

Platypus 
(Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The appearance of this unusual egg laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver tail, otter-footed mammal confused European naturalists when they first met, with some considering an elaborate fraud. This is one of the few venomous mammals, the platypus males have spurs on its hind legs that give the poison can cause severe pain to humans. Unique features of the platypus makes an important subject in the study of evolutionary biology and recognizable and iconic symbol of Australia, but has emerged as a mascot at national events and features behind the Australian 20 cents coin. Platypus is the animal symbol of the state of New South Wales.

Reproduction
 
Platypus males are larger than females. Ing Occurs once a year, beginning in late June in the warmer northern parts and in October in the southern part. The female usually lays two eggs (the egg resembles a soft leathery egg Reptiles) but may lay up to four and incubates these against her abdomen (by clasping Them with its tail) for about two weeks in a blocked-off nest at the end of a long breeding Burrow. The young "Puggle" They have no fur Pls hatch.

Scientific classification

Kingdom :   Animalia
Phylum :     Chordata
Class :         Mammalia
Order :        Monotremata
Family :      Ornithorhynchidae
Genus :       Ornithorhynchus

Species :     O. anatinus 
Food :         Worms, insect larvae and yabbie

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