Ayooo a PLATYPUS thread

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http://www.spectacular-planet.com/images/recordgallery/platypus.jpg

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/Grzimek_mammals/Ornithorhynchidae/v12_id12_con_spur.jpg/medium.jpg

http://animal.discovery.com/guides/baby-animals/mammals/gallery/platypus.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ls82oeIE4UA/SRR_D-XI7qI/AAAAAAAAAgc/XIZC7NK7tHo/s400/Platypus.jpg

baby echidnas are puggles but the term can be used to refer to any monotreme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna

Male echidnas have a four-headed penis, but only two of the heads are used during mating. The other two heads "shut down" and do not grow in size. The heads used are swapped each time the mammal copulates.[6]

GIS with caution

http://swenglishrantings.com/swenglishrantings/Bilder/News/platypusTwins.jpg

OMG I love them. I also love that they're called puggles. So cute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus_venom

^^^NO WAY

everything in this fuckin country is venomous, take outback trip w/ caution

I like it how the English originally thought Australians had stitched together parts of different animals to fake them out when they sent platypus specimens back to the mother country

i still don't believe they exist irl

They are pretty ridiculous tbh.

this fuckin country

gosh, such venom

GIS with caution

― retrovaporized nebulizer (╓abies), Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:48 PM Bookmark

curiosity killed the cat o_O

Best animal of all time!!!!!!

Has anyone ever seen one in person?

A boy platypus has five X and five Y chromosomes!!!!!!!!!! (exclamation pt for each chrom)

Has anyone ever seen one in person?

Ha, I was gonna ask just this - in the wild, not captivity, of course.

i got this plat at the xmas market in hyde park, london... anyone know the name of the company that makes em?

http://i.imgur.com/Aub8p.jpg

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/platypusp1.gif

My daughter's pet Platypus is driving me nuts

Bicycle Repairman
09-20-2003, 08:31 PM
Okay, here's the situation...

Now that the weather has turned cooler, Pia the Platypus has moved indoors from the pond out back of Stately Repairman Manor to the hot tub next to the swimming pool. Before my morning swim, I must scoop up the poop found floating using my golf ball retriever, and believe you me, there's a lot of poop!

On top of all that, Pia eats almost exclusively a diet of giant tiger prawns and turns up her leathery bill-like snout to less expensive options like worms or imitation crab meat. I can tell you from personal experience what smell a Platypus gives off with such a diet, and it isn't Roses.

All well and good, you might say. Except for one important fact: Platypi have to be about the most useless creatures on God's Green Earth. I can't possibly understand what purpose they serve. While we all know of the unusual fauna in Australia (some that feature up to five orifices), I can't help but think this mutant species is nothing more than proof that Darwin's theory is out of whack. There's absolutely no endearing qualities this animal has. They show nothing in their behavior that can be considered the least bit pet-like. Plus, Pia really freaks out the dogs. They won't go anywhere near the swimming pool.

How do I break it to my daughter that I want Pia gone? And would the SPCA accept a Platypus?

http://gothamist.com/2010/07/19/flashback_6.php#photo-1

Angry platypus gif is internet gold

i got this plat at the xmas market in hyde park, london

Never Seen A Real Platypus Productions, Beijing

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/23/1a/03/231a03584fb0399216f466fba1a9a515.jpg

"We knew platypuses were incredible. Now we know they glow, too"
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/11/glowing-platypus/