An amazing animal!!!

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