They would be “milked” with a squeegee.
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You didn’t have to post this
No but I told my wife and she stopped talking to me, so I figured everyone should know.
Wow, TIL.
The platypus’s mammary glands lack teats, with milk released through pores in the skin. The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.[16][71] After they hatch, the offspring are milk-fed for three to four months.
It’s thought that this was the ancestral state, and that specialized ducts (eventually nipples) evolved later on eutherian mammals.
Edit: I recognized my error moments later when I realized that marsupials have nipples too. So this evolved after marsupials and eutherians split from monotremes.