Platypuses sweat milk. This is because it doesn’t have teats. Milk appears as sweat on a platypus, but it’s an aquatic mammal so it doesn’t sweat at all.
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Platypuses sweat milk.
Platypuses don’t have stomachs. So, platypuses have a duck-like bill, are mammals that lay eggs, and now they don’t have stomachs, either? Truly a WTF animal for WTF facts.
Platypuses “sweat” milk. Since they don’t have teats, milk appears as sweat on a platypus (it’s not technically sweat, though, since aquatic mammals don’t sweat at all).
Platypuses are so weird that when scientists first discovered them, they thought it was a hoax. Platypuses have been well-known for thousands of years by Indigenous Australians, but when British scholars first encountered them, they were extremely puzzled. The confusion came down to the fact that while being mammals, these bizarre creatures lay eggs, have a duckbill, a beaver’s tail, feet like an otter’s, and the males are even venomous!
Platypuses ooze milk from all over their skin.