The Australian 20 cent coin features a platypus on the reverse.
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The Australian animal, an egg-laying mammal, is spelled "platypus".
The bear is not an Australian animal. Most read 'koala bear', right? But it is just 'koala'.
No other animal occupies the same niche as a platypus. There is no other animal which burrows in river banks amid the Australian bushland or rainforest, orwhich hunts for tiny crustaceans on the riverbed.
Australian animals without teeth are the two monotremes - the platypus and the echidna. The platypus has grinding plates between which it crushes its food, while the echidna has a long, sticky tongue to capture termites and ants.
The Australian platypus.
The fur of a platypus is thick and velvety, so their pelts were prized for their softness and warmth. The high demand for the platypus pelts led to the animal's near-extinction. It was only when the Australian government placed the platypus under protection that hunting stopped.
The Australian 20 cent coin features the platypus.
Yes. The platypus is native to Australia alone.
None of these is an Australian animal.The answer is supposed to be "wallaby", but the species name is wrong. It is a yellow-footed rock wallaby, not a yellow-tail.It is certainly not koala or platypus, as there is only one species of each of these.
The platypus is a protected Australian native monotreme, or egg-laying mammal.