Does the mother take care for baby platypus?

Platypus mothers do take care of their young. Once the eggs hatch, the mother platypus constructs a burrow near a body of water where she places her young. She keeps them safe and provides them with milk during their early life stages. She nurses them in the same manner as other mammals, although instead of nipples, platypus moms have special abdominal pores through which the nutritious milk is secreted for the babies to latch onto and drink from. However, unlike most other mammals, baby platypus are left alone in the burrow without much direct contact with their mother except during milk feedings.