How is egg laying beneficial to the platypus?

Question

How is egg laying beneficial to the platypus?

Answer 1

well how is laying eggs beneficial to reptiles? or birds?

same idea.

Answer 2

well... Its benefits are:

- Females do not have carry the offspring as long as it would have to if it gave birth the way most mammals do.  This benefits the animals, because it can gather food and perform other daily tasks easier than it would if it were pregnant for months.

- I am not sure about the platypus, but most bird eggs give a food source that the animal can eat as it grows and develops

-the shell protects it from bacteria and other pathogens

Answer 3

It is not really more beneficial than live-bearing young. Evolution just didn't need to change it, because there is no need.

Answer 4

Ah, laying eggs sets them even higher than the rest of the animals in terms of awesomness, duh.

Answer 5

because they ive right near the water and their babies need to be safer than just live birth