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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Biodiversity@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

This is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed its babies ‘milk’

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This is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed its babies ‘milk’

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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Biodiversity@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
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Similar to mammals, these ringed caecilians make a nutrient-rich milk-like fluid to feed their mewling hatchlings up to six times a day.
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    What about the platypus?

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      Amphibian and semi-aquatic aren’t the same thing. Frogs are amphibians because they start as gilled tadpoles and turn into hoppy lungy frogs. Turtles are not amphibians because they hatch as a turtle, live as a turtle, and die as a turtle. It’s turtles all the way down.

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      What about the platypus?

      Platypus babies only drink Bundaberg Ginger Beer. Also, they’re not amphibians.

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      Platypi are mammals

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        Platypussies is the plural.

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          Platypotti

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      Platipy, like echidnas, are monotremes; “primitive”, egg-laying mammals.

      Caecilians are amphibians, like frogs and salamanders. Whole different clade.

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