Echidnas are the only other extant members of the monotreme family.
Guppies do not give birth to other kinds of fish, Ms twig, although…
… from googling to confirm this fact I learned that male guppies will “mate” with other fish, even male platies, but these mating attempts do not produce any fry.
I think jaguars are pretty cool, and I might have claimed them as my spirit animal when I was 7. (we had a toy jaguar that went with one of the GI joe dolls, and I used the play the jaguar while my brother played the GI Joe.)
Q1 - MayanActuary - Is it a physical object? - Yes* (some might argue)
Q2 - Soyleche - Are you likely to be within 50ft of one today? - No
Q3 - John.S.Mill - did the object category exist 200 years ago? Yes
Q4 - Soyleche - Is it unique? - No
Q5 - 1695814 - Is it something that can be purchased? - No (a person would not likely be able to purchase - though it might be for sale in some instances)
Q6 - Lucy - Is it man made? - No
Q7 - SredniVashtar - Is it a thing that lives and dies? - Yes
Q8 - SredniVashtar - Is there one in the Washington DC zoo? - No (at least not per their website “Meet the Animals page”)
Q9 - John.S. Mill - Does it lay eggs - No
Q10 - Lucy - Is it’s natural range in North America? - No
Q11 - MayanActuary - Does it have an average lifespan of more than 15 years? - No
Q12 - John.S.Mill - is it carnivorous? - No
Q13 - Lucy - Does it live in the water? No
Q14 - Vorian_Atreides - Is it visible to the naked eye? Yes
Q15 - John.S.Mill - Is it domesticated - No
Q16 - SredniVashtar - Is it bigger than a 12 oz can of Resurrection beer? - Yes
Q17 - Lucy - Have I likely seen it at a zoo? - Yes
Q18 - MayanActuary - Is it A koala? - YES!!!
If I threw you off with the under 15 average, my bad. I did consider answering that question Maybe? But given the link that Mayan posted (which I also used) about males rarely making it past 10-12 years in the wild I figured the average had to be under 15 for the species.
And when Twig said there were 2 at the National Zoo, I almost posted, “someone should tell their IT department”
In the absence of distributional information, I think it’s reasonable (in general!) that the mid point is the “average” to use. So your answer to longevity should be sufficient and not take innumeracy into consideration.
Translation: No, I’m not asking if you’re that dumb; I was talking about those other idiots who don’t know the difference between animals & mammals, and just wanted to clarify whether you were conflating the terms in the exact same way as those idiots.
Err, i don’t think that using words differently is generally a sign of being dumb. There are lots of words that are used differently in different contexts it by different groups of people.