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Platypus

By: Alisa, Jessica, Maya

Diet • Platypuses eat insects and larvae, they pick up gravel as they chew up the insects and larvae so they can eat .

Structures • Platypuses have a beaver like tail to swim. Platypuses have duck like feet to swim.

Behavior • Platypuses feed milk to their young. • Platypuses hunt underwater.

Habitat

• Platypuses live in a burrow underground in Australia near water.

Interesting Facts • Male platypuses have stingers on their rear feet. • Platypuses are one of nature’s unlikely animals. • Male platypuses are venomous. • Platypuses are bottom feeders. • Their reproduction is nearly unique.

What If? • If a platypus lost it’s adaptations it would not survive because it can not use it’s Morphological or Behavioral adaptations.

Sources • http://pl.atyp.us/platypix/large/Mm_2139.jpg http://designeranimals2011.wikispaces.com/Obdurodon+dicksoni+-+Platypus http://roentgenrayreader.blogspot.com/2011/07/omovertebral-bone.html http://australian-animals.net/plat.htm

http://scienceray.com/biology/zoology/the-one-and-only-platypus/ http://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/tag/mammal/ http://www.darwinthenandnow.com/2011/06/the-platypus-terrorizes-evolution/