Platypuses

Platypuses don't take long to locate food on riverbeds, as their bills are equipped with acute electro-receptors to detect the movement of tiny invertebrates in the mud. However, they must make hundreds of dives every day in order to get enough food to sustain themselves.

No. Male platypuses do not have darker fur than females.

Everything organic that has a brain has instinct, find food, mate, avoid predators and danger, animals have evolved their instincts. The animals that had genetic mutations that didn't have these instincts died before they could reproduce as much as the ones that did, and the ones that did passed their genes on.

You would not use a platypus anywhere. However, you might encounter one in Australia.

More than one platypus is two or more platypuses. The plural is not 'platypi'.

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A meat-eater, platypus eat small water animals such as insect larvae, freshwater shrimps, and crayfish.

The platypus, usually active at dawn and dusk, relies on its sensitive bill to find food. With eyes and ears closed, receptors in the bill can detect electrical currents in the water and can help to find prey.

Platypus can stay underwater for up to 10 minutes. When swimming, the platypus moves itself with its front feet and uses its back feet for steering and as brakes.

Water doesn't get into the platypus's thick fur, and it swims with its eyes, ears and nostrils shut.

The platypus has no teeth, and stores its food in cheek pouches to eat on the surface. It chews its food between horny grinding plates and ridges on its upper and lower jaws before swallowing.

Yes there is. You can find one in Millstream Falls National Park in Queensland. As for a picture of one, I don't know where you can find one.

National Platypus day is this coming March 5th.

I think he keeps it in a pocket, or by his side. But it is Physically impossible, besides he is a platypus.

Only the male platypus has any type of offence as protection. Adult males have venomous spurs on their ankles.

Male platypuses have a venomous spur on each of their hind legs, through which they can deliver a poison strong enough to kill a small dog, and to cause almost paralysing agony to an adult human. Platypus venom contains a protein which lowers blood pressure, also inducing shock.

It is not generally known that fossil evidence indicates there were once platypuses in South America, although these creatures had teeth, unlike modern platypuses.

It is unknown why platypuses became extinct in South America thousands of years ago.

Yes. They are properly called just "platypus", but the name "duckbilled platypus" is often applied. Some believe their bill resembles that of a duck, but it is actually quite different.

Platypuses are members of the monotremes (also get placental mammals - us - and marsupial mammals - eg kangaroos). Monotremes are echnidnas and platypuses. They have the hair and milk producing characteristics of all mammals but lay live young encased in eggs instead of having live births like placental or marsupial. Placental exchange nutrients with the mother via a placenta until birth, and marsupial are born very immature and then attach to a nipple in a pouch while they mature.

Eleven week after birth, the platypus is still blind.

A male platypus is 50-60 cm in length, and weighs from 1700 grams to 2kg.

There are not many animals in the wild that hunt platypuses, because platypuses mainly swim underwater and live in hidden shelters, from tropical north regions to the sub-alpine areas of southern Australia.

Red foxes prey on younger platypuses, and feral cats are another platypus predator.

Natural predators of the platypus include snakes, water rats, goannas, spotted quolls, eels, hawks, owls and eagles. In the north of its range, dingoes are another predator. Lower platypus numbers in far northern Australia are possibly due to predation by crocodiles. On occasion, large freshwater eels (which may be twice the length of a platypus) have been thought to eat platypuses.

A beaver does not breathe underwater, they can hold their breath for a long time.

Platypuses lay between 1 and 3 eggs each breeding season.

Platypuses are one of two types of mammals which develop from eggs. The mother platypus prepares a chamber at the end of a burrow especially for the purpose of protecting the young. After she lays one to three eggs, which have already developed within her body for 28 days, she curls her body around the eggs to incubate them for another ten days.

After hatching, the mother platypus feeds her young on milk secreted from glands, rather than from teats. The young are blind, hairless and completely vulnerable. They are suckled by the mother for 3-4 months, during which time she only leaves them to forage for food. As she leaves the burrow, the mother platypus makes several thin plugs made of soil along the length of burrow; this helps to protect the young from predators which would enter the burrow during the mother's absence. When she returns, she pushes past these plugs, thereby forcing water from her fur and helping to keep the chamber dry.

Both the platypus and the echidna are mammals which lay eggs. They are mammals because they nurse their young on mothers' milk. These species of egg-laying mammals are known as monotremes.

No. A puddle is an indentation in the ground, filled with water.

There is no word for a group of platypuses, as platypuses do not congregate in groups. They are solitary animals. Because they do not form social groupings or families, there has been little need for a collective noun to describe such groups.