Do you know which animal is capable of giving both milk and eggs? You will find the answer in this post, but first, let us see the basic concept, there are mainly two types of animals. The first type is Oviparous animals, which are those who lay eggs and give birth to their young, with no other embryonic development within the mother, and also do not produce milk. The second type is viviparous animals, that is, those that give birth to their offspring from the womb, or in which fertilization and embryo development occur inside the mother, and such animals produce milk. But despite this, there is one such animal exists in the world that is capable of both laying eggs and producing milk, which is none other than the "platypus".
Now hardly anyone has seen this animal because Platypus is endemic to eastern Australia. Sometimes, it is also referred to as the duck-billed platypus. It is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal, which is considered to be the only animal on earth that gives birth to its young by laying eggs and also produces milk and feeds them. Also, the way it feeds its milk to her young is quite interesting. It is thought that mammals developed nipples because it was the best way of feeding their babies. But although possessing mammary glands, the platypus lacks teats or nipples. Instead, they have pores in the skin through which milk is released and feed their babies by sweating it out.
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