Is a platypus predator or prey?

Answer 1

It is both, but a platypus is more often predator than prey. Few animals prey on an adult platypus, although goannas and snakes will enter platypus burrows to eat the eggs and sometimes the young. Weaker or ill platypuses are also prey of animals such as water rats, spotted quolls, eels, hawks, owls and eagles.

Platypuses must eat the equivalent of their own bodyweight each day, so they hunt for annelid worms, tiny shrimp and other crustaceans in creeks and rivers, diving hundreds of times a day in order to feed on annelid worms and insect larvae, freshwater shrimps, and yabbies (freshwater crayfish) that it digs out of the riverbed with its snout or catches while swimming.
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Answer 2

Platypuses eat small crustaceans such as yabbies that live on the bottom of creeks and rivers. They also eat other kinds of small aquatic invertebrates, such as worms, freshwater crayfish, insect larvae, and freshwater shrimps.

Platypuses catch their food in the water. They may make hundreds of dives in a single day. The bill of a platypus has sensitive electroreceptors which pick up tiny nerve and electrical impulses generated by crustaceans and other animals that inhabit the bottom of the creek or river. The platypus then uses its bill to shovel away the dirt, and find the food.

Answer 3

The platypus's prey consists mostly of aquatic creatures as it hunts for food in the water. It hunts for aquatic insects (or terrestrial insects which fall into the water) and insect larvae, annelid worms and tiny crayfish, molluscs and yabbies. On occasion, they may prey on tiny frogs and fish, but these do not form a regular part of their diet.

Answer 4

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