No. The platypus can only live near fresh water. In reality, platypuses do not live in water at all. They live in dry burrows in freshwater riverbanks and creek banks, and hunt for food in the water.
It isn't a "marine mammal" because it doesn't continuously live in salt water. A dolphin or whale, which never come ashore, is a "marine mammal". A platypus is an amphibious mammal, meaning that is capable of functioning in the water or on land.
Manatees do live in salt water if they live in Florida they live in salt water and they live in springs if it is warm
they live in salt water
the salt water hatchet fish live in salt water!!!
They live in salt water They live in salt water
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Some beetles can and do live in salt water, such as the salt creek tiger
Yes, starfish do live in salt water.
YES they do live in salt water
Platypuses obtain their water from the freshwater creeks and rivers near which they live.
No extant amphibians live in salt water.
A platypus.