Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Platypuses Moms Nurse Their Babies By Sweating Milk

The platypus is a curious creature for plenty of reasons, including the fact that the animal nurses its young despite having no nipples. Instead, female platypuses secrete milk from special mammary glands that make the liquid ooze from the surface of their skin. It looks more like sweat than the breast milk humans are familiar with.

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