I'm going to post a platypus every day until all of /an/ wants to snuggle a pugglePrevious thread >>5118115 hit image limit and before anyone says it yes the males (and only the males) venomous (mostly seasonally).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8 [Embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5L5fVdXueAhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/1puF5nSDV6QI have also been thinking if the daily reminder to want a platypus is too nebulous. It seems to confuse some anons. I didn't want to completely steal Sakurafish's every day until you like it, but After her ban I wanted to do something similar. Mayby a reminder every day to platonically love platypuses, but then 4chan being 4chan some will take that the wrong way. But I am open to suggestions. This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
platypus delivery has arrived
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>>5160359Double platypus all the wayThis is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
a perry the platypus short appeared on my yt feed, so I came here to tell platyanon how based he is>>5160907oh what a nice treat
>>5161327Funny, I found out about Phineas and Ferb from searching for platypus documentaries. I'm glad it brightened your day and flattered it made you think of this. Now that you reminded me I set a calendar reminder to post something Perry March 6 next year because the first Saturday of March is platypus day :)This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
Better post before I loose track of time again.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
>>5160355they are cute as hell but I'm scared of their leg spurs. I know it won't kill me but it sounds excruciatingly painful
>>5162249Only the males have them and the one place that lets you play with them only brings out females. That being said male platypuses like to play tug of war like dogs. David Fleay was notorious for playing with the male named Jack that he raised who loved playing tug so much he could be lifted out of the water entirely with him clamped onto a dish mop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
like and subscribe and reblog and repost and retard if this is how you found out about platypi and not phinus and ferbhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gM5TjSOQ48
>>5162647I have seen that and while not what I would call goo. That song definitely got stuck in my head for a while and not in a good way like anything Mr. WeebleThis is your daily reminder to want a platypus
This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
Summer finally breaks this week and it immediately starts pouring rain and I got caught napping instead of posting on time :(This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
Happy birthday 4chansThis is your daily reminder to want a platypus
>mammal>lays eggs>venomous>bioluminescentI don’t understand it, maybe I’m not meant to understand
>>5165779Maybe "we" do not have to understand in order to appreciate them for how delightful they are. This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
I love platypi...but I can never get over the fact that they're mammals who lay eggs and garter snakes are still reptiles who give birth to live young..
>>5165779"Our meddling intellectMis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:—We murder to dissect.Enough of science and of art;Close up these barren leaves."just appreciate the platy, anon, and everything else if you can
>>5166516Some sharks give live birth as well. Although a fertilized egg is also alive. The whole naming convention for reproduction can be a little all over the place. Think of it this way. Monotremes diverged from reptiles before marsupials and part of why platypuses survived was because marsupials basically cannot be semi aquatic or their young would drown in their mothers pouch while she was foraging. For their specific environment laying eggs and nursing young was an evolutionary advantage.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
>>5166578Today I learned while looking this up the difference between a haiku and a stanza. TY anon.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
i'm glad to see youre still around platypus anon, hope all is well
>>5166944you're very much welcome, platy anon! i'm glad i helped you
>>5167376I'm doing OK. Thanks for asking.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
Ha beat the nap curse and woke up on time for onceThis is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
Good luck and gods speed platapanon I'm rooting for you
>>5168616Thank you. I genuinely appreciate that.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
>>5168710what a charming fella. the platypus is cute, too
>>5168824Platypuses are always cute.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus.
>>5165779Because it's honestly not really a mammal. It's a relic of obsolete Linnaean classification that categorized animals based on perceived similarities (which to be fair that's all they had to go on since they didn't exactly have DNA testing or as good a fossil record as we do). They found this animal that really didn't fit into their pre-existing classification scheme and so just had to awkwardly cram it into whatever was closest to it. Had the Platypus (and Echidna) gone extinct the day before the first europeans arrived and they were only known through fossils, they would 100% be classified as a group of Non-Mammalian Cynodonts (albeit closely related). There would be factoids and listicles like "Did you know that this group of ancient mammal relatives survived in Australia until the modern era?". And of course this has had knock on effects, because since we classify Monotremes as true mammals, that's effected how we classify a lot of mesozoic animals in the Mammal and Mammal adjacent lineages.
>>5169082>CynodontsI kinda knew about that, but still super interesting read. TY for your insightful analysis anon.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
Yay. I can post againThis is your belated daily reminder to want a platypus
So just putting this out there, but since I have been doing this for a little while now. Should I start mixing in pictures from my collection of platypuses in hats just to help keep the thread from getting repetitive?This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
>>5170518I'm not going to say no to plats in hats but how many days have you been at this now though? This is your daily reminder to keep on keeping on platapanon
>>5170565I've been doing this since around 2014 I think. I started the first daily platypus thread the day after mods banned Sakurafish on /a/, but looking up what day that was exactly is kinda hard now.This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
I forgot to want a platypus today can you remind me?
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>>5172847Are they denning creatures?
>>5173285Does burrowing count? Because they make and live in burrows. In captivity they sleep in nesting boxes attached to their foraging tanks. They actually have a burrowing behavior that has gone partially unexplained that I have a working theory on. Before they go to bed they dig inside their burrow tunnel for upwards of a half an hour and I think it's actually a hygiene behavior. Like chinchillas taking a dirt bath, but for platypuses it's more to dry off. In captivity they dry off with a squeegee built into the entrance to their nesting box to help prevent their most common source of morbidity in captivity which is pneumonia. But I would like to see if something like the shammy rollers in a carwash would be even better. not as violent like that it would scare them, but something more like the brushing towers they give to cows, but for drying off. They might really like it and it could help them dry off all the way before they go to sleep and their body temperature drops (why they a susceptible to pneumonia while in captivity).This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
>>5172040I don't like that the tip of the beak isn't bone. It's kind of freaky
