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Do platypuses eat yabbies

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10y ago
Updated: 11/10/2020

Yes - but only very small ones. Whilst platypuses prefer smaller prey, they do eat a variety of invertebrates such as larvae, annelid worms and tiny crustaceans, including freshwater crayfish, or yabbies.

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