2. Duck Billed Platypus
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Ornithorhynchus Anatinus
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5. Small freshwater animals
Adult and larval water insects
Crayfish, fish, frogs, tadpoles
Snails, spiders, freshwater mussels
Worms, fish eggs
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6. 3 to 5 pounds
Adult head and body length runs 12 to 18
inches
Life Expectancy 10 Yrs (Wild)17 Yrs (in Captivity)
Snout is soft, moist, and rubbery
Webbed Feet
Covered in fine, Soft fur
(900 hairs per sq
inch)
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7. Two types of Burrows
Camping Burrow
Nesting Burrow
Entrance tight
90 Feet at longest
Lays 1-3 eggs (Normally 2)
Late Winter early spring
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8. Part bird, part reptile, part mammal
Soft Bill
Kept reptile features
Lays eggs as a mammal
DNA similar to Human
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9. The platypus may look funny but he is
one extraordinary creature. When the
Duck-Billed Platypus was found in the
1800's he was stuffed and sent to
England. The scientists thought it was a
joke! They thought that someone glued
the body of a beaver and the bill and
feet of a duck onto it! But they were very
wrong.
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