No. Platypuses and spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. The young are hatched, not born.
The echidna is sometimes called a spiny anteater, but it bears no relation to anteaters. Anteaters are placental mammals, and echidnas are monotremes (egg-laying mammals).
Yes. Anteaters are placental mammals because they do not have a pouch like most marsupials, and they do not lay eggs like the monotremes. The echidna, which is sometimes called the "spiny anteater", is not a true anteater. It is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal.
Very, very tenuously. Seals and spiny anteaters (echidnas) are both mammals. They are not, however, even the same type of mammals. Seals are placental mammals and echidnas are monotremes (egg-laying mammals).
Spiny anteaters, or echidnas, move with their feet.
Monotremes is the group it's in, and the only other animals in that catogory are two species of echidna (also known as spiny anteaters).
No. Spiny anteaters are not any type of lizard. Their proper name is "echidna", and they are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, found in Australia and on the island of New Guinea.
Because the name is spiny which makes them spiny
True anteaters do not lay eggs.True anteaters should not be confused with "Spiny anteaters", more properly known as echidnas. These creatures are monotremes, meaning that they are egg-laying mammals, like platypuses.
Both spiny anteaters (echidnas) and wombats have a pouch. Wombats are marsupials, like most pouched mammals. Echidnas are not marsupials, but monotremes. Monotremes are egg laying mammals. Echidnas have a pouch so they can carry the egg they lay and, once the egg hatches, the baby echidna.
Spiny Anteater is another name for the echidna. However, echidnas are not related to anteaters at all, despite the name. Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, while anteaters a placental mammals. Echidnas have sharp spines, hence the name 'spiny' and they feed primarily on termites, as well as ants.
Yes. Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are mammals, meaning they must be looked after by their mother if they are to survive. Even though echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, the female still suckles the young as any other female mammal does. The baby echidna is completely dependent on the mother for several months.