Assertion: platypus | /r/HasProperty | mammal
Facets:
value: interestingly
type: DEGREE
value: based on its fur
type: CAUSE
value: despite laying eggs
type: OTHER
value: to lay eggs
type: PURPOSE
value: with legs
type: OTHER
value: apart from
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Is a Platypus a Mammal?
text: It is one of only two mammals to lay eggs (the other being the echidna), it is one of only two species of mammal capable of envenomating
text: Apart from looking like a Frankenstein’s monster patched together from discarded animal parts, it is also one of the few mammals that lay eggs.
text: Platypuses are one of only a few mammals able to use electroreception in locating their prey, a technique usually reserved by fish!
text: The platypus is a monotreme and is one of three mammals that lay eggs.
text: Platypuses are one of the only mammals in the world that lay eggs.
text: The platypus is one of the very few mammals that are venomous.
text: The platypus and two species of echidna are the world's only monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
text: It is classified as a monotreme, which means that it lays eggs and incubates them like a bird or reptile, but it feeds its young with milk, so it is considered a mammal.
text: It is also one of only mammals to lay eggs.
text: The platypus is one of the two mammals that lay eggs.
text: Platypuses bear a beaver tail, venomous spurs (males only), a duckbill, webbed feet, and fur, as well as being one of the only mammals to lay eggs.
text: It is a mammal which has fur and suckles its young, but it also lays eggs, has webbed feet, a bill that looks like that of a duck, and a tail resembling that of a beaver.
text: The platypus is one of only five mammals in the world that is venomous.
text: The platypus is one of only three mammals that produces venom.
text: Platypus is one among the three mammals which lays eggs
text: They are one amongst the three mammals which lays eggs and feeds their young ones through a large gland that oozes out the milk covered up from a patch of fur since they do not have teat.
text: The platypus, AKA, God’s little mistake is one of the only a few mammals on Earth known to lay eggs, however most people find it weird not because it lays eggs, but because it looks like a beaver someone hastily glued a duck bill to.
text: You’d think that the platypus, being a mammal with legs, would be meant for land.
text: Although it is a mammal, it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
text: But it is a mammal!
text: Most early scientists correctly assumed it was a mammal based on its fur, but working only from skins they knew nothing else.
text: The Platypus is a mammal found in Eastern Australia and Tasmania and is native to Australia.
text: In addition the platypus lays eggs but is a mammal.
text: Interestingly, despite laying eggs, platypuses are mammals.
text: DNA analyses suggest that although this trait is shared and is synapomorphic with birds, platypuses are still mammals and that the common ancestor of extant mammals lactated.
text: Even though platypuses are mammals, they have a flat bill like a duck.
text: Platypuses are mammals that are native to the eastern region of Australia.
text: The platypus is one of only two mammals that lays eggs.
text: The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is one of only two mammals —
text: The platypus is one of only two mammals that lays eggs.
text: The platypus is one of only two mammals that lay eggs to produce young.
text: The platypus is one of the few mammals known to have a sense of electroception: it locates its prey in part by detecting their body electricity.
text: In addition to the other details that make the platypus such a curious creature, the platypus is one of the few mammals known to produce venom – delivered through a stinger on the hind leg known as a platypus' spur.
text: The Platypus is one of the few mammals known to have a sense of electroreception: it locates its prey in part by detecting body electricity.
text: The platypus is unusual among mammals in other ways as well; it is one of only a few mammals that are venomous.
text: Platypuses are one of only a few mammals able to use electroreception in locating their prey, a technique usually reserved by fish!
text: The platypus is a monotreme and is one of three mammals that lay eggs.
text: Platypuses are one of the only mammals in the world that lay eggs.
text: Platypuses are one of the very few mammals that secrete venom.
text: The platypus and two species of echidna are the world's only monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.