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Platypuses do not eat fish. 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.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 10y agoPlatypuses do not eat fish. 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 must make several hundred 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. The only reason fish are ever ingested is if they are accidentally shovelled up with the invertebrates.
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∙ 12y agoNo. The platypus is a mammal, and specifically, a monotreme. Although it lays eggs, the young platypus is fed on mothers' milk, which is the defining characteristic of mammals.
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∙ 12y agoPlatypuses do not eat fish at all. They eat small water animals such as aquatic insect larvae, fresh water shrimp, annelid worms, yabbies and crayfish (which are not fish, but invertebrates).
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∙ 14y agoNo. Platypuses need to eat live food.
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Do whales eat platypuses?
No whales eat fish
Do platypus eat mainly fish?
No: platypuses do not eat fish at all. Platypuses eat small water animals such as aquatic insect larvae, fresh water shrimp, annelid worms, yabbies and crayfish.
Do platypuses eat krill abundant small fish?
No. Platypuses do not eat fish at all. Platypuses eat small water animals such as aquatic insect larvae of caddisflies, mayflies and two-winged flies, fresh water shrimp, annelid worms, yabbies and crayfish.
What type of fish does a platypus eat?
Platypuses do not eat fish, nor any other vertebrate. They feed on invertebrates such as crustaceans, annelid worms and larvae.
Would a platypus eat a small fish?
Platypuses do not eat fish. It is conceivable, although unlikely, that they might eat very, very tiny fish which were the same size as the insect larvae and annelid worms they eat.
What types of fish do belugas eat?
they eat fish " of kores''
What types of fish eat plants only or eat fish only or eat both fish and plants?
starfish eat it
What types of fish eat krill?
patagonian toothfish and other types of fish
What do smaller fish eat?
Different types of small fish eat different types of food. Some smaller fish feed on dead fish while others feed on algae and plankton. There are a variety of foods a fish can eat.
Do platypuses eat mangroves?
No. Platypuses do not eat mangroves or any other plant matter.
Can fish eat bigger fish?
Some types of fish can eat other bigger fish. For examples, piranhas often eat bigger animals including fish.
Do platypuses eat worms?
Platypuses do not eat earthworms or other terrestrial worms. They eat aquatic annelid worms.
