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How do they eat the platypus?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

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.

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12y ago

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