Male Platypuses have ankle spurs on their hind legs through which they can dispense venom composed largely of defensin-like proteins (DLPs), unique to the Platypus. This venom is powerful enough to kill smaller animals, and to cause agonising pain to humans.
Platypuses also dig burrows into riverbanks. These burrows are only large enough for smaller predators to enter, but they do not provide protection from snakes. The burrows may extend into a riverbank as far as 30 m (100 feet).
Male Platypuses have ankle spurs on their hind legs through which they can dispense venom composed largely of defensin-like proteins (DLPs), unique to the Platypus. This venom is powerful enough to kill smaller animals, and to cause agonising pain to humans.
Platypuses also dig burrows into riverbanks. These burrows are only large enough for smaller predators to enter, but they do not provide protection from snakes.
Male Platypuses have ankle spurs on their hind legs through which they can dispense venom composed largely of defensin-like proteins (DLPs), unique to the Platypus. This venom is powerful enough to kill smaller animals, and to cause agonising pain to humans.
Platypuses also dig burrows into riverbanks. These burrows are only large enough for smaller predators to enter, but they do not provide protection from snakes.
The platypus is a shy and solitary animal which only defends itself, never initiating an attack.
The platypus mostly uses its broad, furry tail as a rudder to steer itself underwater. It also uses all four of its feet to propel itself.
The male platypus has a poison spur in its hind legs which can kill small animals, and injure ones larger than itself.
If the question means whether the platypus would give a warning before using its spur to defend itself, the answer is no. Platypuses are relatively defenceless creatures, and it would be a very foolish person who provoked a platypus into attack. If encountering a predator, a platypus also would not give a warning, but would use everything within its means to defend itself.
Platypuses do not live in groups. They are solitary animals.
Yes. Their ability to dig long burrows give them some protection.
The platypus is a quadriped. On land, it walks on all fours. In water, the platypus propels itself with a broad, flat, beaver-like tail.
The platypus is shy of most other creatures larger than itself. Sudden sounds will make it scurry for cover, and it is rarely seen in the wild by humans.
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Nature does not have rules. Man has expectations. The platypus breaks no rules of nature, because it is a perfectly natural creature in and of itself. All of its adaptations are natural.
The female platypus has no special features to protect itself from predators. The male, however, has a venonous spur on its hind leg. This spur is capable of injecting a powerful venom that causes agonising, paralysing pain to larger animals, and kills small animals.
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