Platypuses

a disadvantage is that there will be more platypuses and the advantage is that they will not be extinct.

Platypuses cannot breathe underwater, just like mammals and dolphins can't. They tend to stay underwater for one to two minutes at a time, and can stay underwater as long as ten minutes, if left undisturbed.

The platypus is found only in Australia. It is not found in any other country.

The female platypus lays 3 or 4 eggs once a year. The Male does not.

Yes

These egg-laying mammals are known as monotremes. The group known as monotremes includes just the platypus and the echidna.

Yes. Platypus fur is soft and velvety.

A dorkapotamus, is part duck, chicken, seagull, platypus and troll.

It's a endangered species.

There is only one left.

The platypus is a solitary creature and tends to live alone. It only lives in a family group while the mother raises the young. The male takes no part in this, and remains solitary, except for during the mating process. All feeding and swimming activities are undertaken alone.

The indigenous people of Australia certainly hunted platypuses when they still lived their traditional lifestyle. In modern times, while some tribes live semi traditional lifestyles, they do not eat platypuses.

Platypuses are carnivores. They are predators; 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

This means the eggs of an animal are kept warm by the mother until the young animal or bird is ready to hatch. For example, the mother platypus incubates its eggs by curling around them; the mother echidna incubates its egg by keeping it in a temporary pouch; a mother scrub turkey incubates her eggs by burying them in a mound of earth and twigs and regularly testing the temperature of the mound; the average bird incubates its eggs by sitting on them to keep them warm.

No. Platypuses are carnivores, and will only eat certain foods, but they are not "allergic" to any foods.

Neither. Platypuses are shy and wary of human beings. Unless they have been handled from a very early age, they do not like being touched or picked up.

No. Platypuses are endemic to Australia. They are not found outside of Australia.

The platypus was found by European settlers in Australia in the 1700s.

No. Platypuses are endemic to eastern Australia, meaning they are not found anywhere else. No English zoos have platypuses either. As of 2013, there are no zoos outside of Australia that have platypuses.

Platypuses are nocturnal. They come out at night.

New Guinea has varieties of the tree kangaroo, but it does not have native ground-dwelling kangaroos like those in Australia.

The length of an adult platypus's bill ranges from 4.5 cm to 7 cm. Males average 5.8 cm and females average 5.2 cm.

You can see photos of the male platypus's venomous spur at the related link below.

The platypus and echidna are unusual because they are the world's only known monotremes, which means they are egg-laying mammals. Though egg-layers, they are classified as mammals because the young suckle mothers' milk.

All mammals are warm-blooded. Only bats and moles while hibernating can drop their body temperature to the state of being cold-blooded, but once that period is over, they remain warmblooded too.

No. There is no specific name for the male, female or baby platypus, nor for a group of platypuses. Many people (including well-meaning conservation groups) refer to baby platypuses as "puggles", but this is incorrect, and certainly not an officially recognised name. There is no name for a group of platypuses because platypuses are solitary animals, and do not move in groups.

Platypuses are able to reproduce from around two years old. Breeding season occurs from Australia's spring season, around October, through to March.