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Is platypus an omnivore

Updated: 10/8/2023
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11y ago

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No, the platypus is completely carnivorous. It does not eat plant matter at all, but feeds on annelid worms, tiny shrimp and annelid worms that live at the bottom of freshwater creeks and rivers. It does not eat vegetation.

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11y ago

No, a platypus is in fact a carnivore. It preys on worms, insect larvae, shrimps and other aquatic invertebrates.

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11y ago

Platypuses are carnivores. They 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. During summer, they eat more than during winter, in order to build up reserves of fat.

Carnivore.

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7y ago

Nothing make the platypus a herbivore since it isn't one.

Platypuses are carnivores

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7y ago

A platypus is a carnivore. They eat shrimps and other crustaceans, insects, shellfish and worms. They are not known to eat any type of vegetation at all.

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8y ago

Nope... they are carnivores - feeding on aquatic animals such as shrimps & worms.

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14y ago

Neither, they are carnivores

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12y ago

a herbivore

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