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Zoo and Wild Mammal
Monotremes
7
Other
Not Applicable
10/27/2010

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Duck Billed Platypus
Definition
From Australia

Face terminates in a leahery bill or beak.
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Spiny Anteater or Echidna
Definition
From Australia

Porcupine-like
Term
Most primitive of all living mammals-have hair & suckle young, but they lay eggs and incubate them.
Definition
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Both have a cloaca.
Definition
Term
Possess no teeth as adults
Definition
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Eutherians
Definition
Placentally nourished inside the body. They are the living links between reptiles and mammals
Term
Incubation
Definition
Echidna-Incubate in a fold of skin on the underside of their body

Platypus-Incubate them in a burrow
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