Platypuses

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• DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.

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  • prex@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And echidnas.

    I’m not sure if I’m and echidna custard or platypus custard kind of person.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the new coke v pepsi

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just be sure you don’t mention echidna custard in front of Ken Penders.

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    • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Echidnas have a four-headed penis. You’re welcome.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dark.

    Also. Where can I try some?

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    • DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      DM me your card details and I’ll send you a couple of pints from my platypus farm.

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It can make it’s own breakfast

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    • itsnotits@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      make its* own breakfast

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A full English breakfast ain’t shit once you’ve had the full platypus breakfast!

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• Balthazar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also well known for foiling evil plots while wearing a fedora.

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey? Where’s Perry?

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    • computergeek125@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      fedora themed music starts playing

      Do be do be do, bah
      Do be do be do, bah

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No stomach? Hadn’t heard that one before

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  • regnn@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If something is too weird, some of the oddities tend to get overlooked.

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bizarre beasts episode on this:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Rzx7yeh7c

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  • Chev@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder how they process food.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stomachs aren’t necessary… You can jump straight to the large intestine. Even humans can survive like that

      Obviously, they’re useful. It’s another stage of digestion, which means more energy and nutrients are extracted from your food. It widens your viable food sources, just like chewing does

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• Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They also don’t have nipples (though do have mammary glands) and mother platypuses basically sweat milk through their skin for the pups to collect off their fur

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  • ramirezmike@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what the fuck

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    • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You got an ancestor that did that too. Part of why platypuses are so damn weird is because mammalian ancestors kept facing evolutionary bottlenecks. Platypuses are more like proto mammals than us placentals

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• MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And they sweat milk!

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What the hell?

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    • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      youtube.com/shorts/MYwgoGQBQXg

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• Tyfud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Evolution was all like: Ok, so which mutations would you like to advance? The venomous thing? The aquatic thing? The electrocuting enemies thing? The no stomach hack? The “Fun at parties” hack?

  Platypus: Yes.

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  • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.

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    • stangel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Platypus have been around for over 110 million years. Nothing broken about that build!

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    • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s like a Swiss army knife of biological features

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  • fraksken@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.

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• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The UV light thing wasn’t discovered (or at least published) until 2020.
  Phineas and Ferb ended in 2015.

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  • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Valid reason to bring it back.

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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They did bring it back lol

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And guess what color they fluoresce.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is worth mentioning that when the first stuffed sample of platypus was sent to Britain, the scientists thought it is a joke.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And some of those same scientists later organized a mass slaughter of thousands of platypuses in order to determine if the stories about them were true. Science, bitches!

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    • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it all started from laughter to slaughter.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No stomach?! Does food go straight to the colon?

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  • perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I went down this rathole.

    They first grind up the bugs they eat in their mouths, then they have a chamber with bacteria which further reduce their food, then their intestines finish the job.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, is it like a gizard type of thing sort of?

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for doing so, did you figure out why they glow?

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  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, platypuses lost their stomach during evolution, so they basically grind food using gravel and their beak before sending it to the intestine, which has taken on some of the functions performed by stomachs in other animals. Source

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like the universe got lazy and hot the “Randomize for me” button instead LMAO

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  • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Will Wright took one look at this thing in an encyclopedia in 2001 and immediately started planning Spore.

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• Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seeing living platypus is high on my bucket list, I’m still not convinced it’s not a hoax

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can just go see one at the zoo; they’re usually with the marsupials and chupacabras.

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure they’re not with the pumas?

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🤔

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought you put capybara and just kinda thought you were also implying they were a pseudo SCP.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re very unlikely to see one in the wild, they’re nocturnal and their burrow entries are under creek banks

    In zoos they live in the nocturnal animal section, probably swimming

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• icedcoffee@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • icedcoffee@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hell yeah

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS

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  • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God was tripping balls that day

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    • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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  • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Truly the “Kings Cup” of animals.

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And that’s the reason you can only find platypuses in Australia.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t see them though. The national park boards say “look for ripples in the water!”.

    If you see ripples, you’re about to die.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you see ripples, you’re about to die.

      Yeah, but from which threat? Snake? Spider? Swimming kangaroo?

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    • pturn1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, if you live in Australia, you’re about to die… So many deadly things always just round the corner, or under the seat!

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• blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s also adorable! Also, the babies are called platypups!

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• buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And Dan Povenmire was the first to discover the florescence. People Perry the platypus was more scientifically accurate than you thought.

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• ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a Pokémon. And so far, the only one with at least 4 types: water, poison, flying and electric. How the fuck can you even counter it?

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  • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Got a 2x weakness to electric and psychic or a 4x to smackdown>earthquake

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  • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is the Avatar.

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  • ElAndvari@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oddly enough, there hasn’t been a true platypus Pokémon.

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m curious now how a mammal develops in an external egg. The process seems so weird.

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  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they might’ve diverged from therians (placentals+ marsupials) before their ancestors became viviparous.

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• Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When you cheat and choose all the perks in the character creator.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bin parts build

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• troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d like to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal I want to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal I’d be a platypus, for you

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• Mandy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Venomous? But…if not friend, why friend shaoed???

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just the males, iirc.

    They have venomous spurs in their hind feet used in chasing off other males.

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    • Instigate@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And their venom HURTS. They’re not particularly deadly or anything but their venom will land you in the hospital or at least laid up in bed for a while. My stepmother grew up out in the bush in NSW the ‘70s and received one of the few recorded platypus envenomations and she described it as the most painful experience of her life. She said childbirth was a breeze compared to the platypus sting!

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• Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They also have spikes in their hind legs that they use to deliver an extremely painful venom that can paralyze small animals.

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• jlow@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And somehow we haven’t driven it to extinction yet? That’s wild!

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  • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably because no one has decided to eat it yet.

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure someone has. It probably tastes like popcorn or something

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wombats, koala, kangaroo, and emu eggs are easier to catch/find and were the main meat in places where those are common

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And it has natural eyeliner

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like how cats have thay too. Soo adorable.

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• bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Glows under UV, AND is Fluorescent? Remarkable.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah that raised an eyebrow. For anyone whose eyebrows remained unraised, fluorescence is glowing under UV.

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    • reinei@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      May they said it “twice” because they actually fluoresce under green light as well?

      /s

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• MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Beaver-tailed you say? youtube.com/watch?v=P9FRxokO2so

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• YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No stomach?!

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  God’s four year old kid got to move the evolution knobs for a day.

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• Guamer@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  funny lil guy

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