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    Report Text The Duck Billed Platypus: (Ornithorhynchus Anatinus)

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    The platypus is a unique animal found in eastern Australia. They live in burrows near freshwater rivers and lakes. Platypuses are nocturnal and use their webbed feet and bills to find food like insect larvae underwater. They have furry coats and lay eggs that are incubated for two weeks. Male platypuses are larger and have venomous spurs that can kill small predators during mating season.

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    The platypus is a unique animal found in eastern Australia. They live in burrows near freshwater rivers and lakes. Platypuses are nocturnal and use their webbed feet and bills to find food like insect larvae underwater. They have furry coats and lay eggs that are incubated for two weeks. Male platypuses are larger and have venomous spurs that can kill small predators during mating season.

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    The platypus is a unique animal found in eastern Australia. They live in burrows near freshwater rivers and lakes. Platypuses are nocturnal and use their webbed feet and bills to find food like insect larvae underwater. They have furry coats and lay eggs that are incubated for two weeks. Male platypuses are larger and have venomous spurs that can kill small predators during mating season.

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    Report Text The Duck Billed Platypus: (Ornithorhynchus Anatinus)

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    The platypus is a unique animal found in eastern Australia. They live in burrows near freshwater rivers and lakes. Platypuses are nocturnal and use their webbed feet and bills to find food like insect larvae underwater. They have furry coats and lay eggs that are incubated for two weeks. Male platypuses are larger and have venomous spurs that can kill small predators during mating season.

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    Report Text The Duck Billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

    The Platypus

    Platypus is one of the most uniq animal in the world, The platypus is found in eastern Australia. They live aside freshwater rivers or lakes, and create burrows for shelter and protection. They are active mainly at nighttime hours, and use their webbed feet for swimming. When swimming the platypus has its eyes shut. They swim underwater for 2 minutes, before returning to the surface for oxygen. They can however stay underwater for up to 10 minutes, and due to their natural buoyancy, they need to be underneath another object to do this. The Platypus has a wooly furred coat and range from 30cm to 45cms in length and the tail about 10 to 15 cms. The wooly furred coat actually has three different layers. The first layer keeps the animal warm, by trapping air, the second layer which provides an insulating coat for the animal, and lastly the third layer of long flat hairs to detect objects close by. These creatures weight on average between 1 to 2.4 kilograms. They have an average lifespan of 12 years. This lifespan may be shortly diminished, as the platypuses biggest threats are snakes, goannas, rats and foxes. Another big threat to the platypus is man, via waterway pollution or land clearing. Platypuses feed on insect larvae, worms or other freshwater insects. They do so mainly at night, by the use of their bill. They turn up mud on the bottom of the lake or river, and with the help of their electroreceptors located on the bill, find many insects and freshwater insects. They store their findings in special pouches behind their bill, and are consumed upon returning to the surface. Male platypus are larger than the female. They reproduct by mating which occurs once a year, between June - October. The female lays between 2 - 4 eggs

    and incubates these for a two week period. When a young platypus is born, they feed from milk from the mother. The milk produced in large glands under the skin which oozes out into a patch of fur and the young platypus sucks it up. A baby platypus is called "platypup". The male platypus have a hollow spur about 15 milimetres in length on the inside of both hind legs which connected to a venom gland, and the platypus uses this spur to defend itself against predators. The male platypus has venom strong enough to can kill a small dog, or cause excruciating pain among humans. Since only the male platypus has this venomous spur, and the gland peaks during mating season, many suggest it is normally used in aggressive encounters between other male platypus.

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