An introduction to the duck-billed platypus - one of the world's few egg-laying mammals. Find out what it looks like, where it lives, and what it eats.
- The duck-billed platypus is native to eastern Australia.
- The duck-billed platypus is a monotreme.
- The duck-billed platypus has a rubbery beak similar to a duck, and a tail like that of a beaver.
- The duck-billed platypus has horny plates instead of teeth, which it uses to mash up its meals of shrimp and insects.
Duck Billed Platypus
The duck-billed platypus is one of the most bizarre mammals and looks like a mismatch of other animal parts...
Its beak resembles a duck but is not hard, instead it is rubbery and acts like a sense organ. It has a mole-like body covered in a thick coat ...
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