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Platypus
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...the order Monotremata, the male platypus has spurs on each ankle connected...poisonous spurs to attack prey, the platypus only uses them against other platypuses or predators. The duck-billed platypus feeds on insect larvae, snails...
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platypus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...year of age. The adult male platypus is about 2 ft (60 cm) long...is slightly smaller. The platypus is found from tropical swamps...at the surface or on land. Platypuses live in pairs in simple burrows...of the mammary glands. The platypus is classified in the phylum...
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duck-billed platypus
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
duck-billed platypus See platypus
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Monotremes
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...the Ornithorhynchidae, including the platypus, and the Tachyglossidae, including...the egg and care for the young. The platypus does not develop a pouch and typically...pouch or from the abdominal fur of the platypus. A three to six month period of maternal...
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monotreme
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...order Monotremata, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The only members of this order are the platypus , or duckbilled platypus, and the several species of echidna , or spiny anteater. Although monotremes possess the distinguishing...
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Spiny Anteaters
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...them to be one species). The sixth monotreme species is the platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus ), which bears little resemblance...captivity as long as 50 years. BOOKS Augee, M.L., ed. Platypus and Echidnas . Mosman, Australia: Royal Zoological Society...
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Mammals
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...Australian mammals are marsupials, as is the opossum of the New World. The Monotremata of Australia include the duck-billed platypus and two species of spiny anteaters. Monotremes lay eggs, but have hair and secrete milk like other mammals.
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Australian Aborigines
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...ate lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish but did not eat scaly fish; they avoided carnivorous animals and the monotremes platypus and echidna, though in other regions echidnas were eaten. Tools were basic: a digging stick for women, spear and spear...
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Eggs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...it should be borne in mind that many other animal species also lay eggs. Among mammals the echidna and the duck-billed platypus lay eggs. Reptiles, among them lizards, chameleons, and the tuatara of New Zealand, lay eggs, as do toads and frogs...
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Australia
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...other landmasses for millions of years, Australia boasts unique animal species, notably the kangaroo, the koala bear, the platypus, and the flightless emu bird. Outside of a few regions (including lush Tasmania), the continent is dry, bleak, and inhospitable...
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