It makes use of it when fighting for a female. ![]() On its hind leg the male platypus has an ankle spur which produces venom. Platypus - Photo: John CarnemollaShutterstock Physical Description Platypuses Have an Venomous Ankle Spur ![]() It uses its front feet like a propeller to move forward and its hind feet to reduce its speed and change directions. While swimming the platypus closes its eyes, ears and nostrils. As the platypus does not have any teeth it grinds its food between the two horny plates of its bill. This is the reason why the hunting platypus always moves its bill from side to side in order to find out where exactly those signals are coming from. It uses its bill just like an antenna to detect electrical signals of other animals.įor example, those signals occur when scared up animals contract their muscles to make an escape. As it is nearly blind and deaf, the platypus has developed a specific strategy to trace its food. The platypus mainly lives near creeks and rivers and looks for food in the water. Platypus - Photo: worldswildlifewonders/Shutterstock Behavior How Platypuses Hunt In 1836, Charles Darwin also was rather flabbergasted when he discovered this extraordinary animal and wrote into his diary: “An unbeliever in everything beyond his own reason, might exclaim: Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work.” ![]() Their appearance reminds us of the following animals:Īt first, people thought the platypus was a hoax and believed that the duck’s bill had been sewn onto the body of a beaver. It looks as if it had been made up of parts of many different animals, just as if Dr Frankenstein had created it. The platypus is one of the most unusual animals of the world.
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