I recently read on BBC News that the platypus is one of the few mammals to use venom. Can anyone name those other mammals?
2006-08-02 11:18:22 · 10 answers · asked by bluchelski01 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Hillary Clinton.
Nancy Pelosi.
Barbara Boxer.
2006-08-02 11:22:22 · answer #1 · answered by dude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cuban Solenodon (Atopogale cubana) & Haitian Solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus)
Solenodons look similar to big hedgehogs with no coat of spines. They both have venomous bites; the venom is delivered from modified salivary glands via grooves in their second lower incisors.
Platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinus)
Males have a venomous spur on their hind legs. Echidnas, the other monotremes, have spurs but no functional venom glands.
Eurasian water shrew (Neomys fodiens)
Capable of delivering a venomous bite.
Northern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda)
Capable of delivering a venomous bite.
Southern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina carolinensis) & Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina hylophaga)
Possibly have a venomous bite.
2006-08-02 11:23:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Venemous Mammals
2017-02-28 05:53:32 · answer #3 · answered by tunick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George W. Bush
2006-08-02 12:04:31 · answer #4 · answered by sbdunc2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sasquatch
2006-08-02 11:22:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know any mammals that have venom. Bats maybe?
2006-08-02 11:24:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its only the male platypus, several species of shrews, and the Solenodon.
2006-08-02 11:26:20 · answer #7 · answered by silent*scream 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At least one type of shrew.
2006-08-02 11:34:16 · answer #8 · answered by alk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
women
2006-08-02 11:22:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
right wing conservative Republicans
2006-08-02 13:14:37 · answer #10 · answered by purrmoon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋