The experts who first spotted the platypus considered it a mystery. This allows the platypus to create a perfect representation of its surroundings to find prey, all from its own watertight cocoon. To seal itself off from water, the platypus shuts off all of those normal senses and finds prey based solely on electrical signals and mechanical waves that it picks up using its bill. However, more strangely, platypus has no use for those common, everyday hunting senses like vision, hearing, and smell. To begin with, these crepuscular little fellas do most of their hunting underwater despite being mammals. Like many mammals, the platypus hunts for food, but it does things in its own uniquely freaky way. Many people were skeptical even after viewing a live specimen, refusing to believing their eyes. This caused most people at the time to believe the platypus to be an elaborate hoax. The duck-billed platypus was discovered at a time when this kind of global trolling was very popular. You see, back in the day, naturalists liked to play a game where they stitched up different animal parts and tried to see if they could convince people it was a new species.
Human beings have been trolling since long before the Internet was a thing and would probably find our pranks lazy at best. After receiving the sting, he lost all use of his arm. An Australian man who once found himself on the receiving end of a platypus spur said a bullet would have been more enjoyable. We have no evidence that It can kill you, but it can definitely cause intense pain. Scientific understanding of platypus venom isn’t concrete. This spur can easily kill small animals, including rival platypuses for mating, but it can also cause incredibly intense pain to fully grown human beings. On top of all the other strange things that make up this patchwork creation is a poison spur that the platypus can use for self-defense or aggression.
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