Platypus
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Duck-billed PlatypusThe Duck billed platypus lives in EasternAustralia, and it inhabits freshwater streams and riverbanks. It has adapted toits environment with webbed feet, thick fur,  and a paddle like tail forswimming. Their tails also store fat incase they can’t go looking for food inthe winter. It is a carnivore so it eats a variety of meat and other animals suchas small fish, shrimps, insects, larvae, and worms. Their bill is verysensitive and  has receptors in it so they can detect prey and movement. The platypus is a nocturnal animal so itlooks for food during the night and is inactive during the day. The exactnumber of platypuses left in the wild is unknown, as they are not endangered,but their population is decreasing due to climate change, habitat destructionand other factors.  The platypuses predators include cats, birds, dogs,snakes, foxes, and also humans. They can protect themselves by swimming away,or if they are protecting themselves from others from their species, they mayuse their spur. The male platypuses are slightly larger and also have a spur onits inner leg, the female has this spur when it is younger but loses iteventually.Most of them are around half a meter long. Theyhave brown fur, a flat paddle-like tail, and black feet and bill. This speciescan live up to 17 years and start mating at the age of 2. The scientific nameof platypus is Ornithorhynchus anantinus, the person who found it thought itwasn’t a real animal, and just another animal with a duck's beak put onto it.The name means flat footed duck like.For wild suzhou Im palmtree and thanks forlistening
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