The tail of a platypus helps the animal to swim and acts as a rudder when it dives.
A platypus also stores most of its body fat in its tail to help it survive when food is limited, and to prepare for when the female must incubate her eggs and care for the young when they hatch.
During the breeding season, the female digs herself a chamber within her deep burrow, and this chamber is lined with leaves and other nesting material. The female with carry this nesting material rolled underneath her tail as she climbs up and down steep riverbanks.
No. America does not have platypuses. Platypuses are endemic to eastern Australia.
Platypuses is the correct spelling.
No part of a platypus is 'poisonous', but male platypuses have a venomous spur on each of their hind legs, through which they can deliver a poison strong enough to kill a small dog, and to cause almost paralysing agony to an adult human. Platypus venom contains a protein which lowers blood pressure, also inducing shock.Female platypuses do not have venom, but they are born with spurs. These spurs fall off by the time the young female is about a year old.
Are PLATYPUSES born alive?
Platypuses were not invented. They were discovered by someone.
Platypuses are found only in Australia.
Platypuses have dense fur.
Platypuses are nocturnal. They come out at night.
Platypuses are considered carnivores.
No. By nature, platypuses are solitary animals.
Not at all. Platypuses are endemic to Australiaalone.
Platypuses are native to Australia.