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Platypus

Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Davart il num: The common name 'platypus' means 'flat-foot', from Greek words for 'broad, flat' and 'foot'.1

Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Mammifers tissientads

Sparuns tissientads

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The platypus is a semiaquatic mammal that lays eggs, and it has a duck-like bill and a beaver-like tail. It lives in eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is special because it is one of the few venomous mammals.1

Viva en

Eastern Australia, including Tasmania1

Australia ed Oceania

Pagina iniziala

The platypus is semiaquatic, so it lives in and around water. It digs in the bottom of streams with its bill to find food.1

Lunghezza

43 cm fin 50 cm (1,4 ft fin 1,6 ft)1

Paisa

900 g fin 1,7 kg (2 lb fin 3,7 lb)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 3,5 km/h (2,2 mph)

Nudar, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

The platypus digs in stream bottoms with its bill and uses electrolocation to detect the tiny electric currents made by the muscles of its prey. It has cheek pouches for storing food.1

Foto da Platypus — Platypus. Foto: Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Short, dense, brown fur that is waterproof1
A soft, duck-like bill1
A wide, flat, furry tail, unlike the scaly tail of a beaver1
Short legs with webbing, most noticeably on the front feet1
Small eyes and ears that sit in a groove that closes underwater1

Savens confundì cun: Early European naturalists were confused by the platypus and thought it was a fake, made by sewing a duck's beak onto a beaver-like body. Its tail looks like a beaver's, but it is furry rather than scaly.1

Forza dal tissi

Sparuns tissientads

In sparun pizzà vi da las chommas davos porta il tissi.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Only the male platypus has venom, which it injects through a spur on each hind foot. The venom is powerful enough to cause extreme pain in humans. The affected limb then develops swelling, which starts at the wound and spreads.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The venom is extremely painful.1

Sche ses sparun ta fura

Lava bain la plaja e tschertga agid medicinal.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sche ses sparun ta fura: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Quant grev è el?

uschè grev sco 14 bananas

uschè lung sco 3 bananas ina suenter l'autrauschè lung sco 16 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auterpudess nudar la lunghezza d'in grond bassin (50 m) en 51 secundas

Quant grond è Platypus cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

Ina persuna che nuda circa 3 km/h (1,9 mph)

Platypus circa 3,5 km/h (2,2 mph)

In nudader olimpic circa 8 km/h (5 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

The platypus has about 40,000 electroreceptors in its bill, which detect electric signals from prey in murky water.1

Its fur is one of the most densely packed of any mammal, behind only otters. It also glows cyan and green under ultraviolet light.1

The platypus lacks a functional stomach, because it does not have the genes needed to make pepsin, a digestive enzyme.1

Adult platypuses have no teeth. They have heavily keratinised grinding pads instead, and young platypuses lose their teeth around the time they leave their burrow.1

Its average body temperature is about 32 °C, lower than the 37 °C typical of placental mammals.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: The platypus is a hoax, made by sewing several animals together.

Vardad: The platypus is a real species. When the first scientists examined a preserved body in 1799, they doubted it, and George Shaw even used scissors to check for stitches.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Gruppa: Mammifers tissientads
Famiglia: Ornithorhynchidae2
Urden: Monotremata
Continents: Australia ed Oceania
Poppins: The platypus lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.1
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira: Near-threatened (IUCN). A November 2020 report recommended upgrading it to threatened under Australia's federal EPBC Act.1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Platypus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Ornithorhynchus anatinus (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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