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Platypuses are carnivores. They are predators; they eat small water animals such as aquatic insect larvae, fresh water shrimp, annelid worms, yabbies and crayfish. During summer, they eat more than during winter, in order to build up reserves of fat.
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.
Baby platypuses drink mother's milk.
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Is Platypus meat good?
It is illegal to eat platypus.
Does an antelope eat a platypus?
No. There are no antelope in Australia, which is the natural home of the platypus. Even if there were, it is highly unlikely that an antelope would wish to eat a platypus.
Can you eat a platypus?
No.Whilst the Aborigines no doubt hunted and ate platypuses, it is illegal to eat a platypus now.
Does a platypus eat a least weasel?
No. The platypus does not eat other mammals; nor are there any weasels in Australia.
What does a platypas usually eat?
what does a platypus eat
Do platypus eat their offspring?
No. A platypus has no teeth, only grinding plates, and is unable to eat food that has bones. So they wouldn't eat their own young.
Can a squirrel eat a platypus?
No that is not possible.
What percentage do platypus eat a week?
A platypus eats about the equivalent of its own weight daily.
Why does the platypus eat?
the platypus eats because every living thing eats or they will die
What does Platypus meat taste like?
It's illegal to eat platypus meat they are endangered.
Which animals can eat a platypus?
Probably sharks
Does the platypus eat others?
Platypuses are not cannibalistic. They do not eat their own kind.
