Platypus Basics
This is the continent where platypuses are native.
What is Australia?
This is the purpose of the platypus' duck-like bill.
What is detecting electric fields produced by prey?
Platypuses use this method to navigate and hunt underwater.
What is electrolocation?
If a platypus could talk, this might be its favorite Australian slang term.
What is "G'day mate"?
This character is a platypus secret agent in the animated television show "Phineas and Ferb."
Who is Perry the Platypus?
Platypuses belong to this distinctive group of mammals that lay eggs.
What are monotremes?
This part of a male platypus is venomous.
What is the spur on the hind foot?
This is the term for the platypus's burrow used for rearing young.
What is a nursery burrow?
This is the theoretical result of a duck, a beaver, and an otter having a wild party.
What is a platypus?
This 1986 rock song by "The Dead Milkmen" mentions a platypus.
What is "The Thing That Only Eats Hippies"?
This is the typical lifespan of a platypus in the wild.
What is 10-17 years?
Unlike most mammals, platypuses have this many pairs of chromosomes.
What is 10 pairs (20 total)?
This is the primary diet of a platypus.
What are crustaceans, insects, and small fish?
If a platypus started a rock band, this would be the most likely name.
What is "The Electric Ducks"?
In this popular board game, one of the random topics players might draw is a platypus.
What is Pictionary?
How do platypus swim?
They swim with there eyes closed and their front feet propel them
This part of a platypus's body is rubbery and sensitive, helping them detect electric fields produced by all living things.
What is the bill?
Unlike most mammals, the platypus lays eggs. How many eggs does a female typically lay at one time?
What is one to three?
This is what a platypus might say if it could complain about its daily struggles.
What is "You try hunting blindfolded underwater with a beak!"?
This famous author included a platypus in his book "Just So Stories."
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
Do platypus have stomachs?
No they do not, the platypus' esophagus is directly connected to its intestine
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Why don't platypuses like to play hide and seek?
Because they always stick their bills out!
What zoo is the only zoo to have platypus out side of Australia?
What is the San Diego
This 1990s children's educational video game series features a platypus as a main character.
What is "The ClueFinders"?