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Platypuses (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The UV light thing wasn't discovered (or at least published) until 2020.
Phineas and Ferb ended in 2015.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Truly the "Kings Cup" of animals.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd like to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal

I want to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal

I'd be a platypus, for you

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No stomach?! Does food go straight to the colon?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago

Yes, platypuses lost their stomach during evolution, so they basically grind food using gravel and their beak before sending it to the intestine, which has taken on some of the functions performed by stomachs in other animals. Source

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I went down this rathole.

They first grind up the bugs they eat in their mouths, then they have a chamber with bacteria which further reduce their food, then their intestines finish the job.

ETA, since you all are such curious cats:

https://wildlifefaq.com/platypus-stomach/

and

https://platypus.asn.au/platypus-myths/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Oh, is it like a gizard type of thing sort of?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for doing so, did you figure out why they glow?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol, I think that's only in the cartoon, eh.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

so whats the chamber between the mouth and intestine called?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

https://platypus.asn.au/platypus-myths/

The fact is that the platypus’s digestive tract does include a small expanded pouch-like section where one would normally expect a stomach to be located. The platypus’s stomach doesn’t secrete digestive acids or enzymes (Harrop and Hume 1980; Ordoñez et al. 2008), but does produce a mucus-rich fluid to assist nutrient absorption in the intestines (Krause 1971). Following on from the discussion of grinding pads above, it would seem that a platypus masticates food so thoroughly in its mouth that little additional processing is required before food reaches the intestines. Also, because a platypus consumes numerous small prey items over a period of many hours, its stomach doesn’t need to have a large holding capacity to accommodate infrequent large meals.

Sooo, "gullet"?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

A pseudo-stomach? IDK...

I think since it's using bacteria and not acid, it's not a "stomach", just performs the same type of function.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And it has natural eyeliner

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Platypodes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

These folks do a great job with nature shorts https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Zxf2MgYCOm0

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

God's four year old kid got to move the evolution knobs for a day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And when it hunts underwater it is deaf and blind, sensing electromagnetic signals from its prey with the duck-bill.

[–] [email protected] 201 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It can make it's own breakfast

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

A full English breakfast ain’t shit once you’ve had the full platypus breakfast!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

yes but what about second breakfast

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And echidnas.

I'm not sure if I'm and echidna custard or platypus custard kind of person.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dark.

Also. Where can I try some?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DM me your card details and I’ll send you a couple of pints from my platypus farm.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait…. People farm the weirdos?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s heavily regulated now as someone sold one of the male drumsticks that still had the venomous spur attached at a Saturday farmers market.

Fortunately most of the venom was deactivated by frying it but they still had to be hospitalised for a week.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how they'd be for pets.

I realize I shouldn't.

but. I kinda want one. They're cute.

(again, I realize I shouldn't!)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The human urge to domesticate anything that is slightly cute

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Er…no… Not me…

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They also don't have nipples (though do have mammary glands) and mother platypuses basically sweat milk through their skin for the pups to collect off their fur

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

what the fuck

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The milk pools in grooves on the mother's abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.