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These small mammals prefer small streams and rivers, where they can hunt for prey on the riverbed. Platypuses are semi-aquatic mammals, so they must live near water sources. Male platypuses’ venom spurs only activate during breeding season, and scientists believe they are used to fight competing males.

This venom is not deadly, but is highly painful.

And They’re Venomous?! – Just when you thought they couldn’t get any weirder… male platypuses are venomous! All of these animals grow spurs on their rear legs, but the males have venom inside their hollow spurs.

This electroreception allows platypuses to see the electric fields created when an animal moves its muscles. Just like your tongue can taste, and your nose can smell, platypus bills have a sense called electroreception.

An Electric Animal – Platypus bills don’t just serve as a conversation starter, they are actually sensory organs.

The only problem? Platypuses don’t have teats! Instead of nursing from teats, the mother platypus oozes milk from glands on her abdomen, and the babies suck the milk from her fur. Even though baby platypuses are hatched from eggs, they still require their mother’s milk to survive.

Milky Mammals – Just like all other mammals, platypuses produce milk to raise their young.

The only other warm-blooded egg layer is the echidna (another resident of Australia). While these unique creatures are mammals, they actually lay eggs! Platypuses are one of the only mammals in the world that lay eggs.

Bird-Like Doesn’t Stop at the Bill – The resemblance to birds doesn’t stop at the platypus’ bill.

"TIL a Baby Platypus Is Called a Puggle." R/Aww,, oddities don’t stop at the platypus’ appearance! These incredibly odd mammals continue to astound with each new piece of information. "That's Not a Baby Platypus, This Is a Baby Platypus." Australian Geographic, 15 June 2021. "Taronga Cares for Tiny Echidna Puggle." Taronga Cares for Tiny Echidna Puggle | Taronga Conservation Society Australia. "Snopes Tips: A Guide To Performing Reverse Image Searches." Snopes.Com. "Orphaned Puggle at Taronga Wildlife Hospital." Orphaned Puggle at Taronga Wildlife Hospital | Taronga Conservation Society Australia. Įchidna | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants.

"Does a Viral Photo Show a Real Baby Platypus?" Snopes.Com. "Beau's Spiky Transformation." Beau's Spiky Transformation | Taronga Conservation Society Australia. "Beau the Puggle." Beau the Puggle | Taronga Conservation Society Australia. When Weja arrived, its eyes weren't yet fully opened and its ears were still closed, according to another blog post published by the center. The wildlife hospital took care of another echidna puggle in November 2021 that was found alone and abandoned on a property, also in New South Wales. "Beau is very used to people and so will be staying at the Taronga Education Centre to meet visitors and students and help educate them about the wonders of our unique wildlife." When disturbed, the young echidna will flinch, curl up or dig into the dirt, which is exactly what echidnas do," said echidna caretake Annabelle Sehlmeier in a blog post at the time. "Beau's become adventurous and now climbs out of the travelling box. Beau can be seen lapping milk from the palm of his caretaker's hand in the video below: Monotremes have patches that excrete milk for their young to "lap up" rather than nurse directly from teats. There are only five known monotremes: four echidna species, and one platypus species, notes the San Diego Zoo. Like platypuses, echidnas are known as monotremes that both lay eggs and nurse their young. Newborn echidnas will spend the first part of their life in their mother's pouch, and after a few weeks will then be kept in a burrow for several months with the mother returning every few days to nurse, notes Taronga. A veterinarian nurse and "surrogate mum" to Beau said that she had not seen a puggle at such a young age in over 15 years due to the unique lifecycle of echidnas. 23, 2012, that noted Beau was around a month old at the time of his rescue and was found by hikers in New South Wales. We then searched the archives of the Taronga Conservation Society of Australia website and found a blog post from Oct.