Christopher Mosley  wrote:

> Ted Shoemaker  wrote:
> 
> > (2)
> > Recently I have read stuff on the internet and usenet, and I don't know
> > how much of it to believe.  For example, people have written the following:
> >    *  Some fish and reptiles regulate their body temperature internally,
> > in a manner similar to that of mammals and birds.  If so, can someone
> > provide more details, please?
> 
> >    *  Some mammals (monotremes) do not lactate.  (True or false?)
> 
> False!  So says Marty Shtauffer of Wild America (where animals shtep 
> on each others toes merely in a shtruggle to shurvive)
> 
> I think the milk diffuses through a membrane and puddles, so the
> chilluns can lap it up. 

IIRC monotremes have glands that exude milk and it runs along hairs.
>       
> 
> > Thank you!
> 
> > Ted Shoemaker
> > shoemakerted{at}yahoo.com


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