A duck is a bird. It has feathers and can fly.
A Platypus is a completely different animal. It is a monotreme (egg-laying mammal) with a bill, fur and a thick, beaver-like tail.
Other differences include:
Although ducks are birds and platypuses are mammals, they have a limited number of similarities. Both are warmblooded vertebrates that breathe using lungs and a respiratory system.
Ducks and platypuses both lay eggs, although ducks lay hard-shelled eggs and platypuses lay soft-shelled, leathery eggs.
Ducks and platypuses both have a bill, but the platypus's bill is broader and flatter than a duck's bill, and it is equipped with electroreceptors for detecting tiny electrical impulses from crustaceans and larvae that live on the bottom of creeks and rivers.
Both ducks and platypuses make frequent dives to find food. In the case of the platypus, however, it will make hundreds of dives a day in order to find the food it needs.
Both creatures have webbed feet, but again there is a difference, because the webbing on platypuses' feet is retractable, allowing them to use their sharp claws to dig burrows.
They are not even remotely related, even though both lay eggs.
Birds are birds, meaning they have a different physiological strcuture, and they are covered with feathers. They have wings, even the ones that are flightless, and they walk on two legs. They regurgitate their food in order to feed their young.
A platypus is a mammal, specifically a monotreme. It is covered with dense fur, and feeds its young on mothers' milk. It walks on four legs and is an adept swimmer.
There is very little that is similar between ducks and platypuses, as ducks are birds and platypuses are mammals.
However, they are both warm-blooded, air-breathing vertebrates. The platypus is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, so both ducks and platypuses lay eggs in order to reproduce. They both feed in the water, although what they eat is completely different. The platypus is said to have a bill like a duck, but in reality, its bill is very different, being broader, flatter, and having the sense of electroreception.
There are numerous differences.
There is no such species as the "duck billed platypus". A platypus is simply a platypus, and the concept that its unique bill is anything like a duck's is false. The structure, function and even the material of which its bill is made are all very different. This animal was called "duckbill" in the early years of settlement in Australia, but the name no longer applies.
No, there is no difference whatsoever. Platypus is the correct name for the so-called duck-billed platypus. 'Duckbilled' is a misnomer.
A duck is a bird. A platypus is a mammal, even though it does lay eggs like a bird does.
A platypus is a monotreme.
depends. what kind of dolphin?
the difference between a whale and a dolphin is a dolphin's dorsal fin is halfway along its back, and a whale's dorsal fin is two-thirds the way along its back. the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise is that they have differently shaped teeth. the difference between a whale and a dolphin is a dolphin's dorsal fin is halfway along its back, and a whale's dorsal fin is two-thirds the way along its back. the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise is that they have differently shaped teeth.
the dolphin is different because the giraffe lives on land and the dolphin live in the water
dolphins are mammals
a dorsal fin
I know that this is ment to be an awnser but i really need som help! What is the difference between Dolphin hearing and Human hearing??
The difference between a seal and a dolphin is a seal mainly stays in the Arctic's while dolphins stay in warm salty oceans (habitat). But in the appearance a dolphin does not have ''whiskers'' like seals do....Hope this is helpful
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nothing.
A dolphin's fin is rounded at the top, but a shark's fin is straight
The platypus's spur is sharp and attached to a venom gland in the platypus's thigh. The echidna's spur is blunt, and is not attached to a functional venom gland.