Genuinely, what the fuck was evolution thinking when it came up with this animal?
>>5153555Internationally?
Laying eggs has its advantages. Not many admittedly but some
>>5153555God thought beavers were lame, so he gave them webbed feet and poison stingers, but then he had to balance it out by adding the beak.
>>5153555I like them
>>5153555If I take that bill off, will you die?
AI jeet image
>>5153558Anon... beavers have webbed feet...
>>5153555it's just a duck! *quack*
never thought platypuses were weird>muh heckin duck bill on a beaverso what? it's not like it's a total alien concept or something
oddly looks like bane
>>5153564>never thought platypuses were weirdhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus#Description
>>5153555Evolution doesn't think, it's throwing random stuff at the wall and seeing what's good enough. Retarded animals like the dodo survived for a while simply because no one was around
Monotremata are the oldest kind of mammalian family. They are a taxonomic artifact. But this does not necessarily mean they are primitive. For example, the platypi's land counterpart, the Echidna, is the most widely distributed Australian mammal. Not in sheer quanity, but they have adapted to every kind of environment you can find in this country.They are unusually durable during natural disaster, like bushfires and droughts, and have little trouble finding the required vertebrates for their diet. The platypus has more trouble relatively, due to the health of our waterways.
You wouldn't understand.
>>5153560It would be extremely painful.
>>5153574You're a big Ornithorhynchus.
I want a platypus!!
>>5153568I thought echidnas were myrmecophagous
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>>5153583They apparently don't travel well. Australia tried giving one to Churchill during WW2 and it dropped dead within a few weeks.
>>5153595Are you sure he didn't just try to feed it beer and cigarettes instead of water and food?
