Platypus

=  //What do you think you're looking at? Never seen a monotreme before?//  **Platypus**   = Platypuses The animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species: the duck (bill and webbed feet), beaver (tail), and otter (body and fur). Typically a platypus’s body is about 15 inches long with a 5 inch tail. Males are venomous. They have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe. They are the only ones in their family and genus to be able to lay eggs and one of 2 species in mammalian to be able to lay eggs. Female platypuses would burrow and lay one or two eggs and keep them warm until they hatch. Which is about 10 days, afterwards they care for their young until the young are able to swim. While they can live on land, they hunt in the water. Platypuses are bottom feeders and scoop up insects, worms, and larvae into their bill but because they have no teeth to chew, they use some gravel to help chew their meal. Platypuses various unique physical appearance gives them an edge as a marine hunter.

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