Mgoldeen ( talk) 00:57, 22 June 2008 (UTC) The platypus genome paper says: I hope that autoconfirmed wikipedia editors (I am not such a one) can correct the misinformation in the wikipedia artice. Our work demonstrates that the mammary glands of the platypus are as well developed and elaborate as the are in most mammals."
Any question about the nature of milk production in THE platypus was settled by research I carried out with my colleagues Gutta Schoefl and Carmel Teahan of the Australian National University, Michael Messer of the University of Sydney, Robert Gibson of Flinders University and Tom Grant. Nevertheless, in 1959 _Physiological Review_ published the statement that monotremes produce a fatty exudate that is licked up by the young from hairs covering pores in the skin-an erroneous finding often cited in popular accounts. Lauderdale Maule of the 39th Regiment of the British Army demonstrated, with the help of soldiers stationed in New South Wales, that the platypus has mammary glands that produce true milk.
Here they imbibe milk from her two nipples, which are covered with fur but are otherwise similar to the nipples of other mammals." "The tiny suckling platypuses are held securely against the mother's abdomen by her tail, which she curls around them. In "The Platypus", Scientific American v. The wikipedia article says that Platypuses do not have nipples (teats), and refers to popular sources. Platypuses have fully developed mammary glands with teats