They would be “milked” with a squeegee.

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      No but I told my wife and she stopped talking to me, so I figured everyone should know.

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    Wow, TIL.

    The platypus’s mammary glands lack teats, with milk released through pores in the skin. The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.[16][71] After they hatch, the offspring are milk-fed for three to four months.

    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

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      It’s thought that this was the ancestral state, and that specialized ducts (eventually nipples) evolved later on eutherian mammals.

      Edit: I recognized my error moments later when I realized that marsupials have nipples too. So this evolved after marsupials and eutherians split from monotremes.