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(OrgOTD) - Coggle Diagram
OrgOTD
Platypus
Features:
- Mother watches the eggs for a few days
- Has 3 characteristics that make everything a mammal
- Has fur
- Glands that secrets milk
- 3 bones in the ear that signifies a mammal
- Semiaquatic
- Most of the day is spent in the water (feed on little invertebrates)
Find food through electrolocation
- Receptors in the bill
Tail
- Stores fat
- Fur is good for isolation -- insulation?
- Lower body temperature than humans
Males have venom gland
- Ex. of sexual selection (women have the gland but no venom)
Part of the monotreme group
- Diff like marsupials
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Bill
Finds food through electrolocation
- Receptors help them find food
Mammal characteristics
- Has fur - Glands that secrets milk - 3 bones in the ear that signifies a mammal
Tail/Fur
Good insulator, Lower body temperature than humans
Lays eggs
Ability to lay eggs are different from other mammals
Eggs are small in numner and size
Most development is done inside the egg when inside the mother
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Monotremes
Marsupials pushed monotremes aside as the main group in Australia
Monotremes are aquatic and marsupials are mostly tied to being on land
Conservation
Threats:
- Hunting,
- Vulnerable status
- Affect of invasive species
- Foxes
- Habitat loss
- Climate change
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