How can it be possible that an animal has a duck bill, otter feet and
body and a beavertail at the same time?! The platypus can! This mammal
lives principally in the east of Australia.
I think that this animal is amazing and fascinating! It is a mixture of
animals: ducks, otter and beavers. They are mammals but they can put eggs instead
of live young and the males are poisonous in their back feet, this feature is
unusual in the mammals because it doesn’t exist in the other species of this class
(mammals). The females don’t have nipples to feed the newborns, but they have a
kind of grooves in the abdominal area where the milk gets out. They have less olfactory
receptors than the rest of the mammals, but they can smell under water.
In general this animal is nocturne, but a lot of times he is seen during
the cloudy days, they used to live in rivers and riparian zones where is food to
eat and sand to rest and nest, also they are carnivorous and eat insect larvae,
prawns of sweet water and river crabs.
The mouth of this animal is below of the beak, unlike birds, and at the
peak are the nostrils. When this animal born, they came with teeth, but they
lost them when the animal leaves the den. The adults have a kind of
cartilaginous plates that grind the food.
I think that this animal is wonderful, they have a lot of particular characteristics that the rest of mammals doesn't have, I think that they are really cute and beautiful, I would like to have one in my house!! hahahaha
Yes, they are strangely cute. I read that they retain some reptile characteristics (the egg laying for example) since they are the most primitive mammals in the evolutionary sense of the term.
ResponderEliminarIt is a very beautiful and very strange animal!
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