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... egg - laying mammals , the mono- tremes , and the pouched mammals usually called marsupials . Today the first group is found only in the Australian region while the marsupials we share with America , though Australia is their stronghold ...
... egg - laying mammals , the mono- tremes , and the pouched mammals usually called marsupials . Today the first group is found only in the Australian region while the marsupials we share with America , though Australia is their stronghold ...
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... egg - laying mammals do not have the same efficient control over their blood temperature and are much more influenced by the air temperature . Also the echidna , during hibernation , suffers a blood ... Egg-Laying Mammals or Monotremes.
... egg - laying mammals do not have the same efficient control over their blood temperature and are much more influenced by the air temperature . Also the echidna , during hibernation , suffers a blood ... Egg-Laying Mammals or Monotremes.
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... eggs in a season and this egg - laying would be at intervals of a few days . Each individual cuckoo always uses the same foster parent species . Whether the same pattern holds in Australia still remains to be proved . The baby cuckoo ...
... eggs in a season and this egg - laying would be at intervals of a few days . Each individual cuckoo always uses the same foster parent species . Whether the same pattern holds in Australia still remains to be proved . The baby cuckoo ...
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