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Platypus

Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Ci turam: The common name 'platypus' means 'flat-foot', from Greek words for 'broad, flat' and 'foot'.1
Dafay metti rekkDafay metti, waaye du la lor bu bon.
Rab yuy nàmpal yu am daŋar Dagi tànk yu am daŋar
Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.

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

Dafay dund ci
Eastern Australia, including Tasmania1
Ostarali ak Oseyani
Kër
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
Guddaay
43 cm ba 50 cm (1,4 ft ba 1,6 ft)1
Diisaay
900 g ba 1,7 kg (2 lb ba 3,7 lb)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 3,5 km/h (2,2 mph)
Féey, xalaat
Lan lay lekk?
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
Dëgg-dëgg!Fotoy Platypus
Platypus. Foto: Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • 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

Ñu ngi koy faral di jaxasoo ak: 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

Kàttanu daŋar

Dagi tànk yu am daŋar

Ab dagu tànk bu ñaw ci tànki ginnaawam moo yor daŋar bi.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

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

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.

The venom is extremely painful.1

Su dagu tànkam jamee la

  • Raxas gaañu-gaañu bi bu baax te wutal ndimbal doktoor.

Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk

Sàmmal sa bopp

  • Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
  • May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
  • Su dagu tànkam jamee la: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.

Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

Platypus guddaayam lu tollu ci 50 cm (1,6 ft)Ab muusu kër lu tollu ci 50 cm (1,6 ft)Ab xaj lu tollu ci 1 m (3,3 ft)

Ni mu diise?

diis na ni 14 banaana
guddu na ni 3 banaana yu ñu toftaleguddu na ni 16 bloku tabax yu ñu toftalemën na féey guddaayu pisin bu réy (50 m) ci 51 segond

Platypus ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.

Ni mu gaawe?

baax na xam

Xibaar

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

Tasukatu léeb

Xalaat bu juum: The platypus is a hoax, made by sewing several animals together.

Dëgg: 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

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Mbooloo
Rab yuy nàmpal yu am daŋar
Njaboot
Ornithorhynchidae2
Toftal
Monotremata
Kontinaa yi
Ostarali ak Oseyani
Liir yi
The platypus lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.1
Ni mu nekke ci àll bi
Near-threatened (IUCN). A November 2020 report recommended upgrading it to threatened under Australia's federal EPBC Act.1
Musiba ci nit
2 / 5: Dafay metti3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Platypus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Ornithorhynchus anatinus (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolluwaayu musiba bi, réyaay bu yem bi ak xalaatu gaawaay bi, nun ñoo leen defar. Seetal ni nu leen waññe: Ni nuy natte musiba.

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