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To catch their prey, platypuses must make several hundred dives a day in order to catch enough food. They use the fine, sensitive electroreceptors on their bills, which detect the tiny electrical impulses made by underwater creatures. After locating their prey, they dig up the mud with their bill like a shovel to grasp them, crushing the creatures between grinding plates in their bills.
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How often do platypuses eat in the wild?
Platypuses eat constantly, spending most of their waking hours hunting for food. To catch their prey, platypuses must make several hundred dives a day in order to catch enough food. They use the fine, sensitive electroreceptors on their bills, which detect the tiny electrical impulses made by underwater creatures. After locating their prey, they dig up the mud with their bill to grasp them, crushing the creatures between grinding plates in their bills.
Do Platypuses bite with their mouth's teeth?
No. Platypuses do not have teeth. They have grinding plates in their bill, which they use to crush their prey before swallowing it.
How do they eat the platypus?
The platypus is not eaten. It is illegal to hunt and/or kill platypuses. If the question means "How do platypuses eat", platypuses are predators; they eat small water animals such as aquatic insect larvae of caddisflies, mayflies and two-winged flies, fresh water shrimp, annelid worms, yabbies and crayfish. To catch their prey, platypuses make hundreds of dives a day in order to catch enough food. They use the fine, sensitive electroreceptors on their bills, which detect the tiny electrical impulses made by underwater creatures. After locating their prey, they dig up the mud with their bill to grasp them, crushing the creatures between grinding plates in their bills.
Is a platypus a scavenger?
No. Platypuses feed only on live prey. Because their bills detect fine electrical impulses from underwater crustaceans and invertebrates, platypuses cannot locate the prey unless it is live.
How does a kangaroo rat catch its prey?
they do not catch there prey
How often does a kangaroo catch its prey?
they do not catch there prey
How often does horses catch its prey?
they do not catch there prey
How does a frog catch his prey?
it catch its prey using the tongue
How often do moose catch their prey?
Moose are not predators, so they do not catch prey ever. Moose are prey animals. Very big hard to catch prey, but still prey.
How often does a kangaroo rat catch its prey?
their are many prey of the kangaroo rat
How do water buffaloes catch their prey?
the dont catch prey, they are herbivores :)
Do fox eat platypus?
Foxes do not usually eat mature platypuses, but they do prey on juveniles.
