Dear Lactnetters,

This is a bit off topic, although I'm sure someone might find this
interesting! My 8 year old son wants to do a talk at school and his own,
spontaneous choice was 'platypuses and other egg laying mammals' - not yet
been able to figure out how he came to this very specific topic? Anyway, we
were hunting the internet today and came across this website where there is
info about an orphaned echidna (egg laying, australian mammal):
http://australian-animals.net/echidna.htm
It gives a brief discussion on how echidnas feed - the milk is rich and they
thus only need to be feed every three days and that the mother normally
secretes milk onto a patch of skin on their stomachs. The baby echidna then
'vacuums' the milk up with his beak.

Interesting stuff for any armchair biologists among us!

groetjes

Sara Bernard - very much an armchair biologist!
The Netherlands

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