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[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 196 points 1 year ago

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

[-] prex@aussie.zone 88 points 1 year ago

And echidnas.

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

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Dark.

Also. Where can I try some?

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 28 points 1 year 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 15 points 1 year ago

It can make it's own breakfast

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[-] Balthazar@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago

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

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 43 points 1 year ago
[-] computergeek125@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

fedora themed music starts playing

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

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 97 points 1 year ago

No stomach? Hadn't heard that one before

[-] regnn@infosec.pub 56 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Ashelyn 85 points 1 year 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 42 points 1 year ago
[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 27 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago
[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago
[-] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

If I remember correctly, they don't have mammalian glands and instead "sweat" thier milk for thier young.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

They have glands but no nipples.

[-] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

They must have glands. Unless they have milk for blood.

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[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Valid reason to bring it back.

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year 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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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 51 points 1 year ago

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

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

ETA, since you all are such curious cats:

https://wildlifefaq.com/platypus-stomach/

and

https://platypus.asn.au/platypus-myths/

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 47 points 1 year 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

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like the universe got lazy and hit the "Randomize for me" button instead LMAO

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] icedcoffee@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 26 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

Bin parts build

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

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

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