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像雌鸟一样，雌鸭嘴兽也下蛋。 The female platypus lays eggs like a bird. | ||
鸭嘴兽和针鼹鼠是世界上唯一的单孔类动物。 The world's only monotremes are the platypus and the echidna. | ||
鸭嘴兽的基因组还显示其带有气味感觉的基因。 The platypus genome reveals the animal held onto genes for odor-detection. | ||
一只鸭嘴兽平均每天要吃等于自己体重一半的食物。 On average, a platypus eats as much food as half of its own weight every day. | ||
研究人员发现，鸭嘴兽有大约22亿个碱基对，是人类碱基对数量的三分之二。 At roughly 2.2 billion base pairs, the platypus genome is about two-thirds the size of the human genome, the researchers found. | ||
鸭嘴兽（Ornithorhynchusanatinus）是仅有的两种卵生的哺乳动物之一，另一种为食蚁兽（spinyanteater），它产卵。 The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is one of only two mammals, the other is the echidna (spiny anteater) that lays eggs. | ||
蛋大约在十天内孵化，不过，鸭嘴兽的幼仔只有青豆大小，完全无法自立。 The eggs hatch in about ten days, but platypus infants are the size of lima beans and totally helpless. | ||
针利用富黏性的长舌捕食蚂蚁，它与鸭嘴兽是仅存的卵生哺乳类动物。 He echidna USES its long sticky tongue to catch ants. The echidna and the platypus are the only existing egg - laying mammals. | ||
这个理论对两栖的鸭嘴兽来说有些道理，然而针鼹却是完全陆生的动物。 The theory seems plausible for platypuses, which are amphibious creatures. Echidnas, however, dwell solely on land. | ||
其他哺乳动物如鸭嘴兽和一些鼩鼱是有毒的，这意味着它们会在体内产生一种毒素。 Other mammals, such as the platypus and some shrews, are venomous, meaning they produce a toxin internally . | ||
