How to pronounce“monotreme”in English

like us. Placentals are the ones that can give live birth to well-developed babies that can develop for a long time in their mother's boobs. So dogs and cats and bats and wells and elephants,all placental mammals like us. But there are two other groups. One of those groups is the monotremes. These are mammals that still lay eggs. They are very primitive mammals. And these arethe platypus and the echidna species of mostly Australia. So in looking at them, it's not that the ancestors of mammals would have looked exactly like them. They're specialized in their own way,