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How do platypuses escape danger?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

In orders to escape danger, platypuses dig burrows into riverbanks. These burrows are only large enough for smaller predators to enter, but they do not provide protection from snakes. So, for extra protection during breeding season, a female platypus will create numerous earthen "plugs" along the length of the burrow, to deter snakes.

If a platypus is out swimming when danger threatens, it can remain motionless underwater, without breathing, for up to eight minutes. In this position it is camouflaged and unlikely to be noticed by predators.

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