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Platypuses (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

funny lil guy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Glows under UV, AND is Fluorescent? Remarkable.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Venomous? But...if not friend, why friend shaoed?????

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (5 children)

And that's the reason you can only find platypuses in Australia.

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

bro heard about Darwin and went “imma try everything then!”

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

Evolution was all like: Ok, so which mutations would you like to advance? The venomous thing? The aquatic thing? The electrocuting enemies thing? The no stomach hack? The "Fun at parties" hack?

Platypus: Yes.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (6 children)

An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Bin parts build

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Beaver-tailed you say? https://youtube.com/watch?v=P9FRxokO2so

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

They also have spikes in their hind legs that they use to deliver an extremely painful venom that can paralyze small animals.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's a Pokémon. And so far, the only one with at least 4 types: water, poison, flying and electric. How the fuck can you even counter it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Got a 2x weakness to electric and psychic or a 4x to smackdown>earthquake

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also well known for foiling evil plots while wearing a fedora.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey? Where’s Perry?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Like the universe got lazy and hit the "Randomize for me" button instead LMAO

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Will Wright took one look at this thing in an encyclopedia in 2001 and immediately started planning Spore.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 months ago (4 children)

No stomach? Hadn't heard that one before

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

If something is too weird, some of the oddities tend to get overlooked.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

It's also adorable! Also, the babies are called platypups!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And somehow we haven't driven it to extinction yet? That's wild!

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

Probably because no one has decided to eat it yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I'm sure someone has. It probably tastes like popcorn or something

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious now how a mammal develops in an external egg. The process seems so weird.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I think they might've diverged from therians (placentals+ marsupials) before their ancestors became viviparous.

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

And they sweat milk!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What the hell?

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

https://youtube.com/shorts/MYwgoGQBQXg

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If I remember correctly, they don't have mammalian glands and instead "sweat" thier milk for thier young.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They must have glands. Unless they have milk for blood.

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

Why... Wh- what? Do you sweat blood?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... you don't?!

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

So are they really mammals?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

They’re monotremes.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

*their x 2.

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