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Platypuses (mander.xyz)

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 31 points 2 days ago

And that's the reason you can only find platypuses in Australia.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 2 days ago

You don’t see them though. The national park boards say “look for ripples in the water!”.

If you see ripples, you’re about to die.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

If you see ripples, you’re about to die.

Yeah, but from which threat? Snake? Spider? Swimming kangaroo?

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[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd like to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal

I want to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal

I'd be a platypus, for you

[-] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

"Welcome to Platypus paradise!"

[-] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 24 points 2 days ago

It's a Pokémon. And so far, the only one with at least 4 types: water, poison, flying and electric. How the fuck can you even counter it?

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[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 23 points 2 days ago

It's also adorable! Also, the babies are called platypups!

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 21 points 2 days ago

Bin parts build

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 days ago

I'm curious now how a mammal develops in an external egg. The process seems so weird.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

I think they might've diverged from therians (placentals+ marsupials) before their ancestors became viviparous.

[-] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago

They also have spikes in their hind legs that they use to deliver an extremely painful venom that can paralyze small animals.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

And it has natural eyeliner

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[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

Venomous? But...if not friend, why friend shaoed?????

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Just the males, iirc.

They have venomous spurs in their hind feet used in chasing off other males.

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 11 points 2 days ago

And their venom HURTS. They’re not particularly deadly or anything but their venom will land you in the hospital or at least laid up in bed for a while. My stepmother grew up out in the bush in NSW the ‘70s and received one of the few recorded platypus envenomations and she described it as the most painful experience of her life. She said childbirth was a breeze compared to the platypus sting!