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How do platypuses build shelters?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Platypuses shelter in burrows they dig in the banks of creeks and rivers. These burrows are dry, as they are above the waterline, and they may be up to 30 metres (100 feet) in length.

Platypuses are specially equipped with webbed feet for swimng, but they have a retracting webbed membrane which can expose the claws, enabling the platypus to effectively dig burrows. This is what the platypus uses to dig burrows into riverbanks for their shelter.

When females are nesting, they have an extra chamber at the very end of the burrow. They line the chamber with grasses and twigs which they carry to the burrow using their tail.

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