>Platypus milk?... wonder what sort of pump they'd need to extract that?!!
>Perhaps our Australian colleagues could enlighten me!! :)

Platypus mothers don't have distinct mammary glands.  Rather, they ooze
milk all over the ventral surface (bellies) and the babies lick it off.  So
you couldn't come up with a pump.  But maybe if you just held up the
platypus by its tail, it would drip milk into a container for you?

:)
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