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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt Black" data-source="post: 2263213" data-attributes="member: 5477">This is a sensitive topic for EN World's antipodean community, and I'd like to straighten it out on all of our behalves. Monotremes are mammals, as are marsupials, although both are far less common than the dominant placental mammals. The defining mammalian features are possessed by all three classes - having fur or hair and producing milk to suckle their young. With this definition in hand it is clear that dwarves are mammals, having both hair (esp. on faces of females) and producing milk. The misconception is that dwarves are placental mammals. They are, in fact, marsupials. After a long gestation, the tiny (although already bearded) foetal dwarf leaves the uterus and migrates to the mother's beard, where it lodges itself for the next six to eight months. There it receives ample nourishment from 'nutritional overflow', sharing the mother's altered diet of lactose-supplimented ale and dirt. The normal diet of whiskey and granite is resumed at late stages of development. The infant dwarf springs from its mother's beard some 18-24 months after conception, already able to walk and wield small axes. This long gestation and incubation period has led to the misapprehension that dwarves are asexual, and that infant dwarves simply 'bud' from adult dwarves. Nothing could be further from the truth, although there are as yet no reported eye-witness accounts of the dwarvish mating process, thank the gods.</blockquote>

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