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Platypuses
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Balthazar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
madjo@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Hey? Where’s Perry?
computergeek125@lemmy.world 8 months ago
fedora themed music starts playing
Do be do be do, bah
Do be do be do, bah
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 months ago
No stomach? Hadn’t heard that one before
regnn@infosec.pub 8 months ago
If something is too weird, some of the oddities tend to get overlooked.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Bizarre beasts episode on this:
Chev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wonder how they process food.
theneverfox@pawb.social 8 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
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 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
ramirezmike@programming.dev 8 months ago
what the fuck
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 8 months ago
The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 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
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And they sweat milk!
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
What the hell?
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Tyfud@lemmy.world 8 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.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 8 months ago
An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.
stangel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Platypus have been around for over 110 million years. Nothing broken about that build!
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
It’s like a Swiss army knife of biological features
fraksken@infosec.pub 8 months ago
After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The UV light thing wasn’t discovered (or at least published) until 2020.
Phineas and Ferb ended in 2015.Opisek@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Valid reason to bring it back.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They did bring it back lol
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And guess what color they fluoresce.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 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.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 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!
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
it all started from laughter to slaughter.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
No stomach?! Does food go straight to the colon?
perishthethought@lemm.ee 8 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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
Oh, is it like a gizard type of thing sort of?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Thanks for doing so, did you figure out why they glow?
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 8 months ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Like the universe got lazy and hot the “Randomize for me” button instead LMAO
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Will Wright took one look at this thing in an encyclopedia in 2001 and immediately started planning Spore.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Seeing living platypus is high on my bucket list, I’m still not convinced it’s not a hoax
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You can just go see one at the zoo; they’re usually with the marsupials and chupacabras.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Sure they’re not with the pumas?
Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 months ago
🤔
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I thought you put capybara and just kinda thought you were also implying they were a pseudo SCP.
psud@aussie.zone 8 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
icedcoffee@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 months ago
icedcoffee@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hell yeah
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Truly the “Kings Cup” of animals.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 months ago
And that’s the reason you can only find platypuses in Australia.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 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.
ICastFist@programming.dev 8 months ago
If you see ripples, you’re about to die.
Yeah, but from which threat? Snake? Spider? Swimming kangaroo?
pturn1@lemmy.world 8 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!
blackluster117@possumpat.io 8 months ago
It’s also adorable! Also, the babies are called platypups!
buzz86us@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And Dan Povenmire was the first to discover the florescence. People Perry the platypus was more scientifically accurate than you thought.
ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 8 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?
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Got a 2x weakness to electric and psychic or a 4x to smackdown>earthquake
Routhinator@startrek.website 8 months ago
It is the Avatar.
ElAndvari@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oddly enough, there hasn’t been a true platypus Pokémon.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I’m curious now how a mammal develops in an external egg. The process seems so weird.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I think they might’ve diverged from therians (placentals+ marsupials) before their ancestors became viviparous.
Sabata11792@ani.social 8 months ago
When you cheat and choose all the perks in the character creator.
sirico@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Bin parts build
troglodytis@lemmy.world 8 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
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Venomous? But…if not friend, why friend shaoed???
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just the males, iirc.
They have venomous spurs in their hind feet used in chasing off other males.
Instigate@aussie.zone 8 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!
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
They also have spikes in their hind legs that they use to deliver an extremely painful venom that can paralyze small animals.
jlow@beehaw.org 8 months ago
And somehow we haven’t driven it to extinction yet? That’s wild!
scytale@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Probably because no one has decided to eat it yet.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m sure someone has. It probably tastes like popcorn or something
psud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Wombats, koala, kangaroo, and emu eggs are easier to catch/find and were the main meat in places where those are common
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
And it has natural eyeliner
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I like how cats have thay too. Soo adorable.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Glows under UV, AND is Fluorescent? Remarkable.
smeg@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yeah that raised an eyebrow. For anyone whose eyebrows remained unraised, fluorescence is glowing under UV.
reinei@lemmy.world 8 months ago
May they said it “twice” because they actually fluoresce under green light as well?
/s
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Beaver-tailed you say? youtube.com/watch?v=P9FRxokO2so
YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
No stomach?!
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
God’s four year old kid got to move the evolution knobs for a day.
Guamer@hexbear.net 8 months ago
funny lil guy
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.
prex@aussie.zone 8 months ago
And echidnas.
I’m not sure if I’m and echidna custard or platypus custard kind of person.
pyre@lemmy.world 8 months ago
the new coke v pepsi
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just be sure you don’t mention echidna custard in front of Ken Penders.
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Echidnas have a four-headed penis. You’re welcome.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Dark.
Also. Where can I try some?
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
DM me your card details and I’ll send you a couple of pints from my platypus farm.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It can make it’s own breakfast
itsnotits@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Zink@programming.dev 8 months ago
A full English breakfast ain’t shit once you’ve had the full platypus breakfast!