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A meat-eater, platypus eat small water animals such as insect larvae, freshwater shrimps, and crayfish.
The platypus, usually active at dawn and dusk, relies on its sensitive bill to find food. With eyes and ears closed, receptors in the bill can detect electrical currents in the water and can help to find prey.
Platypus can stay underwater for up to 10 minutes. When swimming, the platypus moves itself with its front feet and uses its back feet for steering and as brakes.
Water doesn't get into the platypus's thick fur, and it swims with its eyes, ears and nostrils shut.
The platypus has no teeth, and stores its food in cheek pouches to eat on the surface. It chews its food between horny grinding plates and ridges on its upper and lower jaws before swallowing.
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Are platypuses herbivores or omnivores?
Platypuses are considered carnivores.
Are the fish and platypus carnivores?
Platypuses are carnivores. Fish species come as both carnivores herbivores and omnivores.
Are platypuses carnivores herbivores or omnivores?
Platypuses are not omnivores, but carnivores. They eat tiny insect larvae and other invertebrates, shrimp, shellfish and annelid worms they find on the bottom of creeks and rivers. They do not eat plants of any description.
How do omnivores similar to carnivores?
Both omnivores and carnivores eat other consumers. However, omnivores eat producers as well. Carnivores do not.
Are amphibians carnivores herbivores or omnivores?
omnivores ,herbivores and carnivores
What animals eat meat?
Both carnivores and omnivores eat meat. Carnivores eat only meat while omnivores eat meat as well as plants.
Are pigs carnivores or omnivores?
They are omnivores.
Are birds carnivores or omnivores?
Some are carnivores Some are omnivores Some are herbivores
Are seals carnivores or omnivores?
They are carnivores
Are geese carnivores or omnivores?
Carnivores.
What do omnivores and carnivores have in common?
Both carnivores and omnivores are consumers
Are unicorns herbivore carnivores or omnivores?
omnivores herbivores
