Float can contain up to seven digits in total, not just following the decimal point â so, for example, 321.1234567 cannot be stored in float because it has 10 digits. If greater precisionâmore digitsâis necessary, the double type is used.
Back to Animals. 1  Live young-Most mammals give birth to live young (instead of laying eggs like birds or reptiles). 2  Marsupials-Marsupials are special types of mammals that carry their young in a pouch. 3  Egg laying-A few mammals lay eggs, they are called monotremes. 4  A giraffe's tongue is 20 inches long. 5  A hard working mole can dig a hole up to 300 ...
Mammalian incubation. Very few mammals lay eggs. In perhaps the best known example, the platypus, the eggs develop in utero for about 28 days, with only about 10 days of external incubation (in contrast to a chicken egg, which spends about one day in tract and 21 days externally). After laying her eggs, the female curls around them.