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The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), [4] sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, [5] is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative or monotypic taxon of its family Ornithorhynchidae and genus Ornithorhynchus , though a number of related species ...
A female mallard duck incubates her eggs. Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Egg incubation is done under favorable environmental conditions, possibly by brooding and hatching the egg.
They are the only group of living mammals that lay eggs, rather than bearing live young. The extant monotreme species are the platypus and the four species of echidnas. Monotremes are typified by structural differences in their brains, jaws, digestive tract, reproductive tract, and other body parts, compared to the more common mammalian types.
Large clutch sizes indicate two females laying eggs in the one nest. It appears that a female will sometimes parasitise another's efforts at incubation, described as "facultative parasitism", by laying "dump clutches" in nests other than her own. [3] There is also some evidence of the duck laying its eggs in nests occupied by other water-birds. [9]
Egg, collection Museum Wiesbaden. This species, like the mallard, does not form stable pairs. They will mate on land or in water. Domestic Muscovy ducks can breed up to three times each year. The hen lays a clutch of 8–16 white eggs, usually in a tree hole or hollow, which are incubated for 35 days. The sitting hen will leave the nest once a ...
They hold the eggs internally for several weeks, providing nutrients, and then lay them and cover them like birds. Like marsupial " joeys ", monotreme " puggles " are larval and fetus-like, [ 9 ] as like them they cannot expand their torso due to the presence of epipubic bones, forcing them to produce undeveloped young.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Species of bird Mandarin duck Temporal range: Pleistocene – Present, 0.8 – 0 Mya Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Male (left) and female (right) mandarin ducks at Martin Mere, UK Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom ...
This duck nests in a tree cavity laying 9–11 cream-white eggs, similar to the Mandarin ducks. [10] The female incubates them while the male stands guard. Once the ducklings are ready to leave the nest, the female flies to the ground and the duckling will leap to the ground and follow their parents.