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prettiestplatypus · 2 days
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One weird trick to date a trans woman Doctors hate it!
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Duck-Billed Platypus Mini Linocut by WRBCCo
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Get microwave-inatored idiot
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roma150502 · 2 days
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blackulax · 5 months
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They are just like me forreal
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semiaquatic secret agent
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beardedmrbean · 6 months
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Great job little dude, you're getting it all figured out
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Camopus from Earthbound 64 / Mother 3 (cancelled game)
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bisonrimant · 6 months
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Platypeace was never an option
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vintagewildlife · 10 months
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Baby platypus By: Unknown photographer From: Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge 1971
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prettiestplatypus · 8 hours
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True story, heard it from my aunt who works at nintendo
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This is the uncensored version of a page from my comic "The Prettiest Platypus" on Webtoon That you can read it here! <-
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thelatestkate · 11 months
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I’m just telling it how it is
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roma150502 · 3 days
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i learned that the Platypus stands out as one of the most unique and intriguing animals globally, brimming with contradictions and surprising features. Here are some astonishing contradictions and exceptional traits that will surely blow your mind:
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It is a mammal, yet it lays eggs. This contrasts with the common expectation that mammals give birth to live young.
It produces milk to nurse its puggles (young platypuses) after hatching, yet it has no nipples. The milk is secreted through pores in the skin, and the puggles lap it up from the mother's belly.
Its digestive system is truly distinct, lacking a stomach and also teeth. Instead, it utilizes gastroliths (small stones) in its gizzard to aid in breaking down food.
Displaying a duck-like bill, a trait typically associated with birds, it's equipped with sensors to detect electrical signals from its prey. This feature is unparalleled among mammals.
The male platypus possesses venomous spurs on its hind legs, reminiscent of a reptilian trait.
Despite its semi-aquatic nature, it boasts webbed feet ideal for swimming like aquatic animals, alongside strong claws suited for burrow-digging for land-based living.
Employing both echolocation (sound-based navigation) and electrolocation (detecting electrical fields generated by muscle contractions in prey), it adeptly hunts underwater. This remarkable ability allows it to hunt without relying on eyes, ears, or smell.
As a monotreme, it has a single opening for the digestive, urinary, and genital organs, whereas in other species these organs are separate.
What a weird animal. It's so weird that it's hilarious that when the first specimen was sent to England about 200 years ago, British scientists initially believed it to be a hoax, suspecting that someone had combined the beak of a duck with the body of an otter or beaver.
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1544cimn · 9 months
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The Four Horsemen of Pattern Recognition:
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