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Where is the mother platypus?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Mother platypuses divide their time between foraging for food on riverbeds and creekbeds, and incubating or feeding their young in a chamber at the end of a burrow dug into a riverbank.

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