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[–] [email protected] 202 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago (4 children)

And echidnas.

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It can make it's own breakfast

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

fedora themed music starts playing

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

[–] [email protected] 101 points 6 months ago (4 children)

No stomach? Hadn't heard that one before

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Valid reason to bring it back.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

They have glands but no nipples.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Seeing living platypus is high on my bucket list, I'm still not convinced it's not a hoax

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

You can just go see one at the zoo; they're usually with the marsupials and chupacabras.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

God was tripping balls that day

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And it has natural eyeliner

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