Platypus
By: Alisa, Jessica, Maya
Diet
• Platypuses eat insects and larvae, they
pick up gravel as they chew up the insects
and larvae so they can eat .
Structures
• Platypuses have a beaver like tail to swim.
Platypuses have duck like feet to swim.
Behavior
• Platypuses feed milk to their young.
• Platypuses hunt underwater.
Habitat
• Platypuses live in a burrow underground in
Australia near water.
Interesting Facts
• Male platypuses have stingers on their
rear feet.
• Platypuses are one of nature’s unlikely
animals.
• Male platypuses are venomous.
• Platypuses are bottom feeders.
• Their reproduction is nearly unique.
What If?
• If a platypus lost it’s adaptations it would
not survive because it can not use it’s
Morphological or Behavioral adaptations.
Sources
• http://pl.atyp.us/platypix/large/Mm_2139.jpg
http://designeranimals2011.wikispaces.com/Obdurodon+dicksoni+-+Platypus
http://roentgenrayreader.blogspot.com/2011/07/omovertebral-bone.html
http://australian-animals.net/plat.htm
http://scienceray.com/biology/zoology/the-one-and-only-platypus/
http://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/tag/mammal/
http://www.darwinthenandnow.com/2011/06/the-platypus-terrorizes-evolution/