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Platypus

Ornithorhynchus anatinus

O imenu: The common name 'platypus' means 'flat-foot', from Greek words for 'broad, flat' and 'foot'.1

Samo boliBoli, a te ne bo resno poškodovala.

Strupeni sesalci

Strupene ostroge

Nevarnost za ljudi: BolečeLahko zelo boli, a skoraj nikoli ni resno.

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

Živi v

Eastern Australia, including Tasmania1

Avstralija in Oceanija

Domov

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

Dolžina

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

Teža

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

Največja hitrost

približno 3,5 km/h (2,2 mph)

Plavanje, groba ocena

Kaj je?

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

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

Kako jo prepoznaš

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

Pogosto zamenjujejo z: 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

Moč strupa

Strupene ostroge

Ostra ostroga na zadnjih nogah nosi strup.

Kaj naredi njen strup, ko ugrizne ali piči?

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

Kako nevarna je za ljudi?

Nevarnost za ljudi: BolečeLahko zelo boli, a skoraj nikoli ni resno.

The venom is extremely painful.1

Če te zbode z ostrogo

Rano dobro umij in poišči zdravniško pomoč.

Vedno najprej pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911). To so splošna navodila za prvo pomoč, ne zdravniški nasvet. Osnove prve pomoči

Ostani varen

Nikoli se ne dotikaj divje živali, je ne lovi in je ne draži, tudi če je majhna in tudi če je videti, kot da spi ali je mrtva.
Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
Če te zbode z ostrogo: ostani miren, ne premikaj se, pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911) ali hitro pojdi v bolnišnico. Zapomni si, kako je izgledala, fotografija pomaga.

Ne preži nate. Strup uporablja, da ulovi hrano ali se zaščiti, in se veliko raje skrije. Več o varnosti

Kje na svetu?

Afrika Azija Evropa Severna Amerika Južna Amerika Avstralija in Oceanija

Kako velika je?

Kako dolga je?

Koliko tehta?

težka kot 14 banan

dolga kot 3 banan, položenih ena za drugodolga kot 16 kock za igranje v vrstizmore preplavati dolžino velikega bazena (50 m) v 51 sekundah

Kakšne velikosti je Platypus v primerjavi s TABO?

Samo matematika v tvojem brskalniku. Nič se ne shrani in nič se nikamor ne pošlje.

Kako hitra je?

Človek, ki plava približno 3 km/h (1,9 mph)

Platypus približno 3,5 km/h (2,2 mph)

Olimpijski plavalec približno 8 km/h (5 mph)

vredno vedeti

Dejstva

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

Razbijalec mitov

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

Resnica: 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

Za strokovnjake za strupe

Znanstveno ime: Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Skupina: Strupeni sesalci
Družina: Ornithorhynchidae2
Red: Monotremata
Celine: Avstralija in Oceanija
Mladiči: The platypus lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.1
Kako ji gre v naravi: Near-threatened (IUCN). A November 2020 report recommended upgrading it to threatened under Australia's federal EPBC Act.1
Nevarnost za ljudi: 2 / 5: Boleče3

Od kod so dejstva

Platypus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Ornithorhynchus anatinus (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
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