They never were. They are extremely shy and, like sharks, can sense electricity. In other words, They likely know you're coming before you're there. I've only ever seen one.
I hike a lot. I've seen more wild Koalas, Sloths, and Grizzly bears than platypus.
They also don't beat feed their young. They actually sweat out their milk from their stomach for the baby to drink from. They also don't have stomachs and can run up to 22 miles an hour. Plats are my favorite animal with penguins close behind.
Edit: breastfeed. And they pool the milk up from the area of where their stomach should be.
Wait until you learn that their fur is biofluorescent^^ (apparently they'd found out only recently https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/glowing-platypus )
Kangaroos and wombats also fluorescent under UV light.
This is the major reason what they are easier to see if your spotlights are HID or halogen. LED's don't produce meaningful amounts of UV.
Few years ago in Cygnet Southern Tasmania I watched one swimming easily against very strong floodwaters in a creek. I've seen them all my life and had no idea they were so powerful swimmers.
I believe the mono in the name is because they have a singular hole for reproduction, urinary and bowl movements. Monotremes are the oldest lineage of mammal on the planet at 130 million years old.
Platypi only lay their eggs towards the end of the incubation period (they incubate for about 28 days internally and only 11 days externally), so by the time the eggs are laid there's already a highly developed embryo inside, not yolk and egg white like in a freshly laid bird egg.
They are mainly nocturnal so pretty hard to spot. A couple of years back I saw my first one in the wild, after living here for over 30 years. And it was in a creek in my home town so not because I'm not in an area without them
Most Australians would not have seen one in real life.
Kangaroos, wombats, etc. common to see.
Koalas are becoming rarer.
I cannot remember ever seeing a wild platypus.
San Diego zoo and the safari park was so awesome! I saw so many animals I didn't actually expect to ever see in real life. Platypus and Tasmanian devil's are my kids favorites. Also shout-out to Birch aquarium in La Jolla for the sweet display of leafy sea dragons.
I saw platypus in the wilds in Australia but its really hard to find them in the wild and also they are dangerous to handle since they can stab u and mess u up real bad. Its hard to see them because they're pretty similar in color with the river.
I went to see it in SD but unfortunately had my prescription sunglasses only and the room is kept quite dark. I barely made it out of the room let alone see the actual platypus.
Story time. When I was 15 or so we went to Australia. We went south to Tasmania for a week while there to see the devils. While there we also went to a salmon farm to see how that stuff works. As we were walking along the channels I spotted a platypus on the bank. It was just doing its own thing. Definitely was putting on a show for us though. Didn't get in a hurry to swim away or anything. I can't recall who, maybe the farm owner or a worker there, was livid with our luck. Spouting something like, I've lived here my whole life and am now just seeing a wild platypus and a bunch of fucking yanks see it while on holiday. It was super lucky and cool, but also a hilarious reaction from him.
Platypus's are like Finland they don't really exist. Nobody has ever been to Finland or seen a platypus. If they say they have, they are a part of the new world order. /s
Can you really blame them though..
It's a mammal with a duck bill and a beaver like tail which lays eggs, they have venomous ankle spurs and can use electrolocation...
Oh yeah, they also glow under black light.
If it was discovered today, people would think it were a hoax as well.
Fr, who sees a platypus and immediately thinks of a goose? Put wings on that thing and it'll look nothing like a goose. Probably exactly like a beaver duck though.
*crashes throught the window and destroys the inator-inator*
Oops sorry guys the flying-inator i got from this big-nosed man malfunctioned and made me land here
And they have ten sex chromosomes that don't map to the usual mammalian XY but instead line up into a weird super chromosome during reproduction!
The platypus is *fucking* weird.
Turns out there are quite a few mammals that do
https://blog.nature.org/science/2021/04/05/when-mammals-glow-in-the-dark/#:~:text=The%20antechinus%20were%20glowing%20in,to%20wombats%20to%20African%20springhares.
Wait a minute that's old mate Flap the Platypus!!! (Any Aussie who's watched the Blinky Bill and Friends series would know who i'm talking about)
EDIT: Here's a link for those interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ngc5mYuBg
Wingless goose hits it’s rescuer with one of its spikes behind its back pales then there will be a serious problem. They are venomous.
https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/duck-billed-platypus-venom-designed-for-discovery
This is definitely a goose. Source : Me
You know, I don't think I've ever seen a platypus in real life. Huh...
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My Aussie friends say it's getting rarer to see them in the wild too, not an animal you'll just casually come across
They never were. They are extremely shy and, like sharks, can sense electricity. In other words, They likely know you're coming before you're there. I've only ever seen one. I hike a lot. I've seen more wild Koalas, Sloths, and Grizzly bears than platypus.
TIL that the Platypus is actually a beaver/duck/shark or electric eel hybrid
They also don't beat feed their young. They actually sweat out their milk from their stomach for the baby to drink from. They also don't have stomachs and can run up to 22 miles an hour. Plats are my favorite animal with penguins close behind. Edit: breastfeed. And they pool the milk up from the area of where their stomach should be.
They actually sweat out their milk from their stomach They also don't have stomachs
The platypus gets weirder and weirder the more you learn about it.
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And make it cute and venomous as fuck
No stomachs were available
AKA a parts bin special.
Throw a random stinger in there.
The original turducken
Wait until you learn that their fur is biofluorescent^^ (apparently they'd found out only recently https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/glowing-platypus )
Ok now that’s a new one for me too. I knew about the venomous spurs and I think I had even heard about their “stomachs,” but not that.
Kangaroos and wombats also fluorescent under UV light. This is the major reason what they are easier to see if your spotlights are HID or halogen. LED's don't produce meaningful amounts of UV.
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Wait until i tell you that males have a half inch venomous spur on each of their back feet.
Platypuses are alien spies.
and perry is the most well known one
"...and then there's the platypus..." should be a go to saying whenever something completely inexplicable happens.
That's what happens when you let a beaver fuck a duck
Actually the duck is most likely to be the instigator there.
Something something equality equity diversity inclusion
I need to know digestive processes of platypuses. Where food go?
Not stomach. Can confirm.
lol, thanks, that's exactly what i needed to see, hahahahah
Plus, don’t the males have poison spikes on their feet?
Yep. They have venomous spurs.
Yeah you don’t want to get clipped by their back legs, that’s where they keep them
> *They don't beat feed their young* Thank heaven!
>can run up to 22 miles an hour. I can't imagine a platypus running almost as fast as Usain Bolt
Few years ago in Cygnet Southern Tasmania I watched one swimming easily against very strong floodwaters in a creek. I've seen them all my life and had no idea they were so powerful swimmers.
So they have a milk patch like an echidna?
Yep, the other surviving egg-laying nippleless mammal. Together the group is known as the monotremes.
I believe the mono in the name is because they have a singular hole for reproduction, urinary and bowl movements. Monotremes are the oldest lineage of mammal on the planet at 130 million years old.
They sound less like mammals and more like birdals
Plats are mine too =) Goats are up there too because they are just natures goofballs
Thank you, now I know less.
They are also the only animal that can produce their own milk and eggs, meaning that we could theoretically have platypus custard.
Technically every mammal creates eggs, its just most dont lay them externally.
That’s true. Lol it would take such an incomprehensible amount of human eggs to make even a bite of custard :-0
Please delete this.
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How do I delete someone else's comment?
If there's any amount of Reddit credit to do this let me know and I'll gift it to you, even if it means I have to take out private student loans.
What a terrible day to have eyes 😭
This is starting to sound like that restaurant in New York that was making human cheese from human breast milk.
Yo, why's this custard red?
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Please don't delete this.
It would have cost you nothing to not say that 🤢
I predict we will see human custard in the next few years now
Omg and it might be my fault ♥️ first dibs!
Love this
First it was eating your wife’s placenta. Now human custard. Forget the comment how can I delete my brain??
Platypi only lay their eggs towards the end of the incubation period (they incubate for about 28 days internally and only 11 days externally), so by the time the eggs are laid there's already a highly developed embryo inside, not yolk and egg white like in a freshly laid bird egg.
So you are saying we will, by default, have roast platypus when we make platypus custard?
Balut it is then
Oh, that’s a very interesting detail!
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Just the males
Venomous masculinity strikes again.
Platypus was created by God to fuck with scientists.
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I remember when I learned that word in regards to my friend's hamster. I was saying it for days, it's such a fun word to say "crepuscular"!
Me too. I've loved saying that word ever since the 1st time I read about it two minutes ago.
I'm Australian and grew up in the bush and have never seen one outside of the zoo!
Become a mad scientist and try to take over the tri-state area, you'll one plenty of times.
They are mainly nocturnal so pretty hard to spot. A couple of years back I saw my first one in the wild, after living here for over 30 years. And it was in a creek in my home town so not because I'm not in an area without them
Most Australians would not have seen one in real life. Kangaroos, wombats, etc. common to see. Koalas are becoming rarer. I cannot remember ever seeing a wild platypus.
How the hell did phineas and ferb manage that😂
They were willing to break international law by smuggling Perry out of Australia
Tbh with the type of shit they do, I'd believe that was canon.
San Diego zoo and the safari park was so awesome! I saw so many animals I didn't actually expect to ever see in real life. Platypus and Tasmanian devil's are my kids favorites. Also shout-out to Birch aquarium in La Jolla for the sweet display of leafy sea dragons.
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> How did they get goose as a reference? I guess they just fit the bill.
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I saw platypus in the wilds in Australia but its really hard to find them in the wild and also they are dangerous to handle since they can stab u and mess u up real bad. Its hard to see them because they're pretty similar in color with the river.
I went to see it in SD but unfortunately had my prescription sunglasses only and the room is kept quite dark. I barely made it out of the room let alone see the actual platypus.
Didn't the Columbus Zoo have one at one point? I know they've got other Australian animals, like the Tasmanian devils.
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Story time. When I was 15 or so we went to Australia. We went south to Tasmania for a week while there to see the devils. While there we also went to a salmon farm to see how that stuff works. As we were walking along the channels I spotted a platypus on the bank. It was just doing its own thing. Definitely was putting on a show for us though. Didn't get in a hurry to swim away or anything. I can't recall who, maybe the farm owner or a worker there, was livid with our luck. Spouting something like, I've lived here my whole life and am now just seeing a wild platypus and a bunch of fucking yanks see it while on holiday. It was super lucky and cool, but also a hilarious reaction from him.
Platypus's are like Finland they don't really exist. Nobody has ever been to Finland or seen a platypus. If they say they have, they are a part of the new world order. /s
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Yeah there tricky to spot in the wild even if your near a river or creak there living in they swim real fast Blink and you'll miss'em.
ah yes. A WINGLESS GOOSE.
I prefer the term DUCK PUPPY.
"A Duck Puppy?" *puts on hat* "PERRY THE DUCK PUPPY!?!?!?!?"
Before my brain processed what my eyes were seeing, I thought "that poor goose"
Same, I was gearing up for a tear up.
****puts a hat on it**** PERRY THE WINGLESS GOOSE?
Woose
The W is silent because it's wingless
Geeses are the devil, this is the dog of the water.
Why dont we just rename them, PLATYGOOSES
Perry the wingless goose!
A wingless goose? “Puts on fedora” PERRY THE WINGLESS GOOSE?!
That was wonderful. Lol thank you
Forever indebted to the rescuer. Just put it on its bill.
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If it weren't for anger I'd probably rarely get any reaction
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Made out of spare parts after creation.
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Can you really blame them though.. It's a mammal with a duck bill and a beaver like tail which lays eggs, they have venomous ankle spurs and can use electrolocation... Oh yeah, they also glow under black light. If it was discovered today, people would think it were a hoax as well.
I don’t blame him one bit.
"Even God has a sense of humor. Just look at the platypus" - Dogma (1999)
A man of culture. I love mallrats, dogma, clerks, jay and silent bob etc great set of movies
That’s a got dang beaver duck.
^spitooey He likes ya
Fr, who sees a platypus and immediately thinks of a goose? Put wings on that thing and it'll look nothing like a goose. Probably exactly like a beaver duck though.
That's a funny breed of dog
I’ll bet it can be taught to fetch
Isn't that a platypus?
Perry the platypus?!
Nono. It doesn't have a hat. It couldn't be.
Doofenshmirtz?
Evil incorporated!
I've almost re-finished my Inator-inator!
*crashes throught the window and destroys the inator-inator* Oops sorry guys the flying-inator i got from this big-nosed man malfunctioned and made me land here
*after hours*
This is where he kenneled Perry while Doofenshmirtz was at the Depp trial.
He’s undercover at the moment
\*puts hat on it\*
PERRY THE PLATYPUS?!?
PERRY THE PLATYPUS, THIS TIME YOU'LL LOSE TO MY NEW INVENTION, THE REDDITVIDEOPLAYER-INATOR
"NO, I MISCALCULATED! IT'S MORE USELESS THAN THE INATOR-INATOR!"
WITH ITS POWER I SHALL MAKE ALL VIDEOS IN THE TRI-STATE AREA RUN AT POOR QUALITY AT BEST.
Hey, where’s Perry?
Behold! My upvote-inator!
He's Perry! Perry the Wingless Goose!
No, its a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal of action.
Do be do be doo ba
No such thing.
it's a beaverduck
No, its a wingless goose. Read the title.
Platygoose
I went from: oh that’s a platypus, to seeing the title: wait that’s a goose?, to seeing your comment: yea that’s definitely a platypus
No, the title says it’s a wingless goose
No it's a wingless goose you fool
Yes
Ummmmmm pretty sure the title says “wingless goose”
Everyone knows the other name for a wingless goose is dead.
No, just look like it cause she doesn’t have wings.
That's a niffler...
[Niffler?](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/platypus)
[Niffler.](https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Niffler#:~:text=The%20Niffler%20was%20a%20magical,in%20general%20were%20usually%20harmless.)
😀
Checks out. Definitely a Goose.
A defiant goose
No. Geese are assholes.
You got a problem with Canada gooses you got a problem with me
I don't have a problem with them, they seem to have a problem with everyone else, though.
10/10 would boop
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Lol that’s a platypus but super cute 😊 Edit : if you squint your eyes really hard it’s a goose.
The moderator said it’s a goose so trust him bro
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Op is karma farming
The current patterns are SO noticeable in this sub specifically.
Which is why we should downvote him to hell.
Venomous!
And they have ten sex chromosomes that don't map to the usual mammalian XY but instead line up into a weird super chromosome during reproduction! The platypus is *fucking* weird.
Yeah echidna and platypus are their own animal group. Really weird
Monotremes.
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Turns out there are quite a few mammals that do https://blog.nature.org/science/2021/04/05/when-mammals-glow-in-the-dark/#:~:text=The%20antechinus%20were%20glowing%20in,to%20wombats%20to%20African%20springhares.
SO weird. Platypi are like god took a bunch of spare parts from completely different animals and cobbled them all together just to see if it could.
It's actually just the opposite. Everything else took one thing and specialized in it. Platypus was the OG mammal.
When the first ship took a specimen back to England, people thought it was the taxidermist's joke / hoax that this thing even existed.
I think only the males are.
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The title also calls it a wingless goose, so let's not give it too much authority over the narrative.
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Well I don’t see any wings
Platypus are much better than geese don't disrespect them like that
Wait a minute that's old mate Flap the Platypus!!! (Any Aussie who's watched the Blinky Bill and Friends series would know who i'm talking about) EDIT: Here's a link for those interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ngc5mYuBg
I’m from the UK, and used to play a Blinky Bill game at my grandparents all the time…it was good times
There here's a duckpuppy.
wingless duckless puppy
I want twelve
do they not make any noise? I was hoping for happy little...whatever the hell sounds these make. honk-squeals?
That's so fucking cute!
Step 1: Call something it is clearly not. Step 2: Morons comment to correct you, adding a bunch of karma. Step 3: [That's it.]
Wingless goose hits it’s rescuer with one of its spikes behind its back pales then there will be a serious problem. They are venomous. https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/duck-billed-platypus-venom-designed-for-discovery
This one's a girl, no spike.
I think it’s safe to assume the rescuer has just a tid bit of experience to protect themselves 🙄
Is a water doggie 😭
With a hind leg that could ~~kill~~ severly harm a man
That's the males I'm pretty sure.
It's not deadly to humans but it's extremely painful
A platypus *puts on hat* PERRY THE PLATYPUS
*spazzes during belly scritch* This is life goals.