Platypuses eat small crustaceans such as yabbies that live on the bottom of creeks and rivers. They also eat other kinds of small aquatic invertebrates, such as worms, freshwater crayfish, insect larvae, and freshwater shrimps.
Platypuses catch their food in the water. They may make hundreds of dives in a single day. The bill of a platypus has sensitive electroreceptors which pick up tiny nerve and electrical impulses generated by crustaceans and other animals that inhabit the bottom of the creek or river. The platypus then uses its bill to shovel away the dirt, and find the food.
It is both, but a platypus is more often predator than prey. Few animals prey on an adult platypus, although goannas and snakes will enter platypus burrows to eat the eggs and sometimes the young. Weaker or ill platypuses are also prey of animals such as water rats, spotted quolls, eels, hawks, owls and eagles.
Platypuses must eat the equivalent of their own bodyweight each day, so they hunt for annelid worms, tiny shrimp and other crustaceans in creeks and rivers, diving hundreds of times a day in order to feed on annelid worms and insect larvae, freshwater shrimps, and yabbies (freshwater crayfish) that it digs out of the riverbed with its snout or catches while swimming.
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The platypus's prey consists mostly of aquatic creatures as it hunts for food in the water. It hunts for aquatic insects (or terrestrial insects which fall into the water) and insect larvae, annelid worms and tiny crayfish, molluscs and yabbies. On occasion, they may prey on tiny frogs and fish, but these do not form a regular part of their diet.
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The platypus is both predator and prey. While it is true that platypuses have few predators in the wild, because they mainly hunt underwater and live in hidden shelters, their greatest danger comes from introduced animals. Natural predators of the platypus include snakes, water rats, goannas, spotted quolls, eels, hawks, owls and eagles. In the north of its range, dingoes are another predator. Lower platypus numbers in far northern Australia are possibly due to predation by crocodiles. On occasion, large eels (which may be twice the length of a platypus) have been thought to take platypuses. The introduction of red foxes as a predator for rabbits may have had some impact on platypus numbers on the mainland. Feral cats are another platypus predator, but the platypus's principal enemies are humans.
Example: Lion = Predator Gazelle = Prey The predator seeks after the prey.
A prey is what a predator hunts down to kill and eat. A prey's predator is what eats it. For example: A gazelle is the prey of a leopard (predator).
A cow is not a predator or prey
Reptiles can be predator or prey.
They are prey and predator.
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the predator-prey cycle is the increase and decrease in population size of the predator and its prey
A seal is both.
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There always has to be more prey than predator. If there is less prey, it will get eaten by the predator and then the predator will starve. If there are not enough predators, the prey may overpopulize.
Predation: Predatory behavior, Predatory: any organism that exists by preying on others, Prey: an animal hunted and seized for food. Example: A predator could be the a snake. The prey would be a rat.