Where do platypuses find their food?

Answer 1

Since a platypus lives in freshwater, it most likely drinks water from these sources. Platypuses drink fresh water found in rivers, creeks and ponds. They are semi-aquatic and reliant upon water for their survival. Platypuses simply drink water by scooping it up in their bill.

Answer 2

Platypuses catch their food in the water. They may make hundreds of dives in a single day. The bill of a platypus has sensitive electroreceptors which pick up tiny nerve and electrical impulses generated by crustaceans and other animals that inhabit the bottom of the creek or river. The platypus then uses its bill to shovel away the dirt, and find the food.

Answer 3

Platypuses need water in which to hunt for their food. Platypuses make hundreds of dives every day in order to find the food they need, which includes aquatic insect larvae, fresh water shrimp, annelid worms, yabbies and crayfish. Because of the way a platypus finds its food, it must be in the water. A platypus's bill has sensitive electro-receptors which pick up tiny nerve and electrical impulses generated by crustaceans and other animals that inhabit the bottom of the creek or river. The platypus then uses its bill to shovel away the dirt, and find the food.

Answer 4

Platypuses obtain their food by hunting, usually during the early morning and evening, because they are essentially nocturnal. They are carnivores and predators; they eat small water animals such as aquatic insect larvae, fresh water shrimp, annelid worms, yabbies and crayfish.

Platypuses catch their food in the water. They may make hundreds of dives in a single day. The bill of a platypus has sensitive electroreceptors which pick up tiny nerve and electrical impulses generated by crustaceans and other animals that inhabit the bottom of the creek or river. The platypus then uses its bill to shovel away the dirt, and find the food.

Platypuses do not have teeth, but hard bony plates which they use to grind the food.

Answer 5

Platypuses find their food on the bottom of freshwater rivers, creeks and lakes. They eat insect larvae, worms, tiny fush and crustaceans that live on riverbed floors, finding them by means of the sensitive electroreceptors on their bills. They then shovel their food up from the mud on the floor of the waterway.

Answer 6

Platypuses drink water.
Baby platypuses drink mothers' milk, just as all baby mammals do.

Answer 7

Platypuses do not actually live in water. They burrow in the banks of freshwater creeks and rivers. They hunt for their food in the fresh water.

Answer 8

A platypus drinks with its mouth!