Platypus

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Platypus

• By Alisa, Jessica, Maya

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Diet

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

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Structures

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

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Behavior

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

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Habitat

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

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Interesting Facts

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

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What If?

• If a platypus lost its adaptations it would not
  survive because it can not use its Morphological
  or Behavioral adaptations.

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Sources

• http//pl.atyp.us/platypix/large/Mm_21-39.jpg

http//designeranimals2011.wikispaces.com/Obdurodo
ndicksoni-Platypus
http//roentgenrayreader.blogspot.com/2011/07/omov
ertebral-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-platyp
us-terrorizes-evolution/