🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also makes a handy melee weapon in a pinch

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1d4 bludgeoning with 1d6 poison on a crit.

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    • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also psychological damage, at least 1d10. I mean, could you imagine someone attacking you with a live platypus?

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this true? Can someone confirm? I wouldn’t like to grab a platypus this way only to find out it was a troll and get spurred.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kind of confirmed! Might only apply to wild ones or pissed off males - anything else I can find on YT is both from this same woman, and a full on love-fest with them like some sort of goofy water puppykittyducky.

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• janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  free him

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• svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This will surely come in handy next time I have to do this.

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• TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  encounters with wild animals should always happen on their terms not yours!

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sounds a lot like something a seagull would say.

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’re venomous

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  • i_love_FFT@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As per the Wikipedia page on platipuses vebom:

    Crocodiles, Tasmanian devils and raptors are known local predators to the platypus, all of which can be impacted by the venom.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Silly predators don’t know to hold the platypus up by the end of the tail!

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    On they feet

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• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ll remember that the next time I need to pickup a platypus!

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• artifex@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hope to have to use this information someday.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What effect does platypus venom have on a human, anyway?

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Painful but not deadly. Wikipedia mentions someone complaining about the pain a month after.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It gets you really high.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      On the pain scale.

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• llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TIL a platypus makes venom.

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  • shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Very very horrible venom

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Non-necrotizing, non-fatal. There’s waaaaay worse out there, and much more commonly found too.

      Pain sucks, no doubt about that, but you’ll survive and not lose a limb.

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• AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  stealing this for my ttrpg character sheet

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