Lactating Egglayers

Milking bugs, fish, & birds

I wrote a novella about a winged species and while I've loosely modeled them on bats, I have a spinoff story involving a child of the species and the story works better if they're egg layers. So I went in search of animals occupying the liminal space between mammals and birds, and discovered some fun facts about lactating egg layers that surprised me.

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