The Duck-Billed Platypus Appreciation Thread

[Piper Maru]

Fairly certain it isn't the only one.

That's interesting, what other mammals have venom?

 

[Perfect Cell]

Who wouldn't want this badass patch?

Is that a Shillelagh, tomahawk and boomerang? Well, that about covers everything.

 

[Doctor Evo]

That's interesting, what other mammals have venom?

It depends in part on how you actually define "venom," but some examples include certain insectivores (e.g., shrews), chiropterans (e.g., vampire bats), and possibly even some primates (e.g., lorises) according to some loose definitions.

 

[Slushy]

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so...look at the platypus.

 

[Piper Maru]

Male Platypus have spurs on their hind legs which can secrete venom from what I've read. Let's say a person gets a spinning heel kick from an angry Platypus, does the person die from the poison?

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

No but it hurts like hell.

 

[Piper Maru]

The P-P-Platypus Song
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[Piper Maru]

Platypus - The World's Strangest Animal (Nature Documentary)

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Platypus - The World's Strangest Animal (Nature Documentary)

The platypus has both baffled and inspired the scientific community since its discovery by Europeans over 200 years ago. Award winning wildlife film maker David Parer takes us down the east coast of Australia to the many serenely beautiful habitats of the platypus.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Platypi are the original species. It was they who crawled forth from the primordial soup, who's hair drifted across the four winds and bred life on this planet like a thousand lovely spores, and it was the Platypus who constructed the precursor to human DNA with its own bare hands. ALL HAIL THE CREATORS.

Tell us more, old shaman.

 

[jmc]

Platypus has pride of place on our 20c piece.

 

[Piper Maru]

 

[Piper Maru]

Perry The Platypus Theme Song

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[Kahran Ramsus]

It depends in part on how you actually define "venom," but some examples include certain insectivores (e.g., shrews), chiropterans (e.g., vampire bats), and possibly even some primates (e.g., lorises) according to some loose definitions.

There are some venomous moles too.

 

[Doctor Evo]

There are some venomous moles too.

I generally include them within the order Insectivora, but I do recognize that that particular name is no longer taxonomically relevant.

 

[ElScrago]

The Creation story for the Platypus gets pretty dark. Was terrified of bumping into a water rat along the Maribyrnong River as kid....

Ducks needed a rape whistle.

 

[Piper Maru]

One day the Platypus shall rise from the water and reclaim the Earth.

 

[Piper Maru]

'Tis the Season