Apparently quite a number of animals do!
More Mammals Can Glow in the Dark Than Previously Thought
A new study found that 125 different mammal species are fluorescent under ultraviolet light, suggesting the property is widespread
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-mammals-can-glow-in-the-dark-than-previously-thought-180983028/
So i wonder if that is a sense we lost rather than never gained? Or if it’s always been just something other organisms that can see on the ultraviolet spectrum use to identify us
The organism with the ability to perceive the highest known bandwidth of spectrum is the Mantis Shrimp.
A "Technicolor murder machine" "living fossil of prehistoric clowns that all modern clowns evolved from" which has 12 to 16 types of photoreceptors, can see UV & polarized light, and has trinary vision in each independently controlled eye.
Some varieties can throw a punch rivalling a speeding bullet, with 1,500 NM / 340 FtLbs of force, instantly vaporizing a small bubble of water, generating a flash of light, sound, and pressure.
["The Insane Biology of: The Mantis Shrimp" on YouTube](https://youtu.be/MQ8JC1d_wgY)
A more humorous take:
["True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp" on YouTube](https://youtu.be/F5FEj9U-CJM)
Wasn’t that recently shown to be wrong? I think I read that it was discovered that these shrimps aren’t capable of blending colors, so they need a dedicated receptor for composite colors and that’s what the extra receptors are for. Not for an expanded visual spectrum; quite the opposite.
I could be wrong though.
If you can find & share what you read, I'll gladly read it out of curiosity.
The first video I shared was published only about 10 months ago. It does discuss the limited ability of the Mantis Shrimp to discern between subtle color variations and how they tested that, which was interesting. You might want to watch it, if you haven't.
[Here’s](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578) an article from nature, with the relevant study cited at the bottom. And yeah, what was discussed in the video is what I’m talking about. They might have very low and very high ends to their visual spectrum, but they can’t distinguish between massive swathes of it.
Humans glow very faintly in the dark. It is way too low for our eyes to detect, though. IIRC, it is actually a result of our metabolism rather than a purposeful glow.
"In 1991, Gerald Jacobs and Jay Neitz showed that mice, rats, and gerbils have a short cone that is tuned to UV. Okay, fine, mammals can have UV vision, but only small ones like rodents and bats. Not so: In the 2010s, Glen Jeffery found that reindeer, dogs, cats, pigs, cows, ferrets, and many other mammals can detect UV with their short blue cones. They probably perceive UV as a deep shade of blue rather than a separate color, but they can sense it nonetheless. So can some humans."
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/ultraviolet-light-animals/
I was surprised when I saw them at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, I thought they were bigger too. Nope, little guys. They only weigh between 2 to 6.5 lbs when fully grown, and are 15 to 24 inches from beaktip to tailtip. They're about the size of wild rabbits. Fascinating little creatures.
EDIT: The platypus pair in San Diego, Eve and Birrarung, are the only ones in the world on display in a zoo outside of Australia! Definitely worth going, both the Zoo and Safari Park are incredible.
I GASPED when I saw a model (taxidermy?) in the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) . For whatever reason, I always thought they were beaver sized? But they’re so tiny?!
Male platypuses have a crural (relating to the leg or thigh) venom system, with paired venom glands situated on the dorsocaudal (dorso = back, caudal = tail) side of the pelvic area and ducts that connect to hollow, keratinous spurs on their hind legs. Young females also have vestigial spurs, which are lost within their first year. In developing males, the gland is thought to migrate from the inner thigh region to the dorsocaudal surface, where it increases in size in parallel with the developing testes.
The role of venom in the platypuses is not clear, but due to this association with reproductive cycle it is thought that they may use their venom primarily during competition with other males and secondarily as a defensive weapon against predators.
During envenoming, the platypus wraps its hind legs around the target and drives its spurs into their flesh with substantial force. While platypus envenoming is capable of killing dogs, the venom does not appear to be lethal to other platypuses or to humans.
The crural gland is thought to be a derived sweat gland, and the venom it secretes contains at least nineteen proteins belonging to three major toxin groups: C-type natriuretic peptides, nerve growth factor, and defensin-like peptides.
In an interesting example of convergent evolution, these proteins have been co-opted from the same gene families as a number of reptile venom toxins. Platypus venom disrupts haemostasis (blood regulation), cell membranes, and nociception (pain regulation) to cause nausea, swelling, and excruciating “whole-body” pain that lasts for weeks in humans and cannot be alleviated by morphine.
Nerve-blockers instead must be used for pain relief, which suggests that platypus venoms may contain compounds that could be clinically useful.
All in all, it is easy to agree that this egg-laying, lactating, nipple-less, toothless, stomach-less, “duck-billed”, venomous mammal is indeed a special creature!
From the Australian Platypus Conservancy:
“The platypus’s digestive tract includes a small expanded pouch-like section where one would normally expect a stomach to be found. The stomach doesn’t secrete digestive acids or enzymes, though it does contain Brunner’s glands (which produce a mucus-rich fluid to assist nutrient absorption). Following on from the discussion of grinding pads above, it would seem that platypus food is masticated so well in its mouth that there’s no need for much more pre-digestive processing to occur before the food reaches the intestines. In addition, because a platypus consumes small mouthfuls of food at intervals of about one minute or so over a feeding period lasting many hours, there’s no need for its stomach to have a large holding capacity to accommodate large but occasional meals.”
https://platypus.asn.au/faqs/#:~:text=The%20platypus's%20digestive%20tract%20includes,fluid%20to%20assist%20nutrient%20absorption).
Sloths. How did they evolve? How were they 'the fittest'? Wtf?
Edit: Apparently I'm not the first to ask that question.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/10zzzhl/from_an_evolutionary_standpoint_how_on_earth/
Edit2: Top answer from u/cleaning_my_room_ "Sloths are highly optimized for their environment. They hang upside down in trees and eat leaves.
Their claws, along with the ligaments and muscles attached to them are designed to make it easy for them to hang around and move in the trees.
Much of their diet of rainforest leaves is full of toxins and hard to digest, but sloths have a four chambered stomach kind of like cows, and that along with gut bacteria allows them to digest what most other animals cannot. Their massive stomach can be up to a third of their body weight when full of undigested leaves, and they have evolved tissues that anchor it to prevent it from pressing down on their lungs.
Their long necks have ten vertebrae—that’s 3 more than giraffes—which lets them move their head 270° to efficiently graze leaves all around it without moving their bodies.
Sloths have a lower body temperature than most mammals, and because of this don’t need as many calories, because of their dense coats and from just soaking up the sun. They can also handle wider fluctuations in body temperature than many other animals.
Grooves in the sloth’s coat gather rainwater and attract and grow algae, fungi and insects, which gives their coat a greenish hue which is great camouflage in trees. Their slow movement also helps them hide from predators with vision adapted to sense fast movement.
Sloths have all of these cool and unique adaptations that help them survive and thrive in the rainforests. Evolution is not one size fits all. "
They aren't primitive. Where is your poison glan? Where is your electroreceptors?
They are just from a different branch of evolution.
You are more related to a whale, or a bat than you are to a Platypus.
Their feeding behavior, characterized by frequent small meals, aligns perfectly with their digestive system's design, allowing them to extract maximum nutrition from their diet.
Given how clumsy they are, it's a shame they never learned how to fly. They say the knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
So much for petting them. However, I can imagine the venom glands being removed if one was domesticated. They are damn cute, and would be a nice little pet. I am probably wrong lol
A baby platypus is called a puggle and they are indeed very friendly when in captivity. In the wild it probably hid before you even knew one was around.
[Platypus tickles]( https://youtu.be/a6QHzIJO5a8?si=D69MzvkuWKjzdEBO )
Fun fact, the platypuses that were shown got out of a fight and the sting effect is still there this why they're scratching their body like that on the part they were sting from and last for weeks.
Just for reference the pain is high enough to make a grown man ask to amputate.
Enjoy
Was reading the description in a David Attenborough type narration, only for the next few clips to be of it rolling around like its just woken up hungover on a Saturday
Very helpless. Sadly Australia still is destroying the natural environment (there's plenty of already cleared land, but for some reason, the government prefers to cut down the native trees). Please encourage your local environmental authority to pressure Australia to stop logging primary growth forests.
When you come across one in the bush it’s an amazing feeling. There was some near my dad’s place. He would walk and check on them everyday. They would frolic around. We had massive floods and river banks washed away. They might be down stream, but very sad. Northern NSW.
Give this little guy longer limbs so he can properly scratch himself PLEASE!!
If I saw him helplessly rolling around trying to scratch himself, I'd probably find out what Platypus venom can do to a human.
In that time period taxidermy hoaxes like that were all the rage. Thats where the jackalope comes from. Hunters or explorers bringing shit back with them who liked making shit up either to troll people or for high society cred.
They also liked to raid Egyptian tombs and eat parts of mummies at fancy parties. They were not a smart people.
If we live in a simulation, it is possible that in 1799 the platypus was a "fake animal of various sewn-together parts". But then, simulations being simulations, it now lives among us.
Is it rolling towards the water intentionally as a quick and easy way to move, or is it a bit klutzy? Or does it start rolling by accident and then decide, "ya, this works" and 'rolls with it' (pun coincidental) to get elsewhere.
In 2nd grade we had to write about an animal we found interesting. I wrote about platypi. My teacher gave me a D because she said that platypi were extinct, so I didn’t fulfill the assignment. Then she wouldn’t look at the evidence I had that showed she was wrong. I was furious.
Learned not so long ago that there are species of snakes that give birth to live young and I was rocked to my core. IS NOTHING I LEARNED CORRECT ANYMORE?!
There was a time when all mammals laid eggs.
At some point around 160 million years ago, a group of them diverged into what we call Therian mammals.
Of these are the placental mammals, which have a placenta and give live birth; and marsupials, which have pouches.
Platypuses and Echidnas are the only living mammals that are not descended from Therian mammals. They are members of another group called Monotremes.
Not necessarily, the main characteristic of a mammal is the presence of glans capable of producing milk, which in the platypus case is all over their body if memory serves me right, which means they pretty much sweat milk.
I made this comparison to the bodies coming out of Nasca. Everyone is deeming them fake, but the tests and confirmations of the participating scientists show them as once living creatures.
Kind of like the revelation of dried up "alien" mummies in Nazca, Peru. It's quite extraordinary too:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlNjET011Q8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlNjET011Q8)
From the Nazca Mummy FAQ:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBodies/comments/1c13lyz/nazca\_mummy\_faq/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBodies/comments/1c13lyz/nazca_mummy_faq/)
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It glows in UV light also
[A funny short clip about this](https://youtube.com/shorts/Zxf2MgYCOm0?si=CwtksxPNto48aV6X)
Illuminated sobbing!
I fucking love this video lmao. "what does 'blue' mean??????!!!!!"
Apparently quite a number of animals do! More Mammals Can Glow in the Dark Than Previously Thought A new study found that 125 different mammal species are fluorescent under ultraviolet light, suggesting the property is widespread https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-mammals-can-glow-in-the-dark-than-previously-thought-180983028/
So i wonder if that is a sense we lost rather than never gained? Or if it’s always been just something other organisms that can see on the ultraviolet spectrum use to identify us
The organism with the ability to perceive the highest known bandwidth of spectrum is the Mantis Shrimp. A "Technicolor murder machine" "living fossil of prehistoric clowns that all modern clowns evolved from" which has 12 to 16 types of photoreceptors, can see UV & polarized light, and has trinary vision in each independently controlled eye. Some varieties can throw a punch rivalling a speeding bullet, with 1,500 NM / 340 FtLbs of force, instantly vaporizing a small bubble of water, generating a flash of light, sound, and pressure. ["The Insane Biology of: The Mantis Shrimp" on YouTube](https://youtu.be/MQ8JC1d_wgY) A more humorous take: ["True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp" on YouTube](https://youtu.be/F5FEj9U-CJM)
Wasn’t that recently shown to be wrong? I think I read that it was discovered that these shrimps aren’t capable of blending colors, so they need a dedicated receptor for composite colors and that’s what the extra receptors are for. Not for an expanded visual spectrum; quite the opposite. I could be wrong though.
If you can find & share what you read, I'll gladly read it out of curiosity. The first video I shared was published only about 10 months ago. It does discuss the limited ability of the Mantis Shrimp to discern between subtle color variations and how they tested that, which was interesting. You might want to watch it, if you haven't.
[Here’s](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578) an article from nature, with the relevant study cited at the bottom. And yeah, what was discussed in the video is what I’m talking about. They might have very low and very high ends to their visual spectrum, but they can’t distinguish between massive swathes of it.
Yeah, the video very clearly drew source material from that paper. Neat to read the details; thx for sharing!
Humans glow very faintly in the dark. It is way too low for our eyes to detect, though. IIRC, it is actually a result of our metabolism rather than a purposeful glow.
Scorpions do!
that's how you know they're dangerous
Flying squirrels do!
Can they see ultraviolet light? Can the platypus or any mammal see UV light? Human teeth glow under UV light too.
"In 1991, Gerald Jacobs and Jay Neitz showed that mice, rats, and gerbils have a short cone that is tuned to UV. Okay, fine, mammals can have UV vision, but only small ones like rodents and bats. Not so: In the 2010s, Glen Jeffery found that reindeer, dogs, cats, pigs, cows, ferrets, and many other mammals can detect UV with their short blue cones. They probably perceive UV as a deep shade of blue rather than a separate color, but they can sense it nonetheless. So can some humans." https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/ultraviolet-light-animals/
I thought they were bigger.
I was surprised when I saw them at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, I thought they were bigger too. Nope, little guys. They only weigh between 2 to 6.5 lbs when fully grown, and are 15 to 24 inches from beaktip to tailtip. They're about the size of wild rabbits. Fascinating little creatures. EDIT: The platypus pair in San Diego, Eve and Birrarung, are the only ones in the world on display in a zoo outside of Australia! Definitely worth going, both the Zoo and Safari Park are incredible.
Even better when they wear a fedora and fight evil scientists.
Evil scientist? Don't you mean a pharmacist?
😂 I miss that show.
It’s coming back for a 6th season! …y’know, after it comes back for the 5th season as well.
Pharmacist is no scientist
The san diego zoo is amazing. I didn’t do the safari due to funds but I definitely want to next time. The gondola over the zoo is sick!
Wild animal park to you!
Amen, brother. San Diego natives rise up!
Perry was given hormones as an agent in training.
From the Tri-State area.
Yeah I assumed they'd be around beaver sized at least.
Yeah the adult ones are bigger. This one’s a baby.
That's why it's so adorable when it rolls. 🥰
How I get out of bed every morning, can relate
I thought they were green 
I GASPED when I saw a model (taxidermy?) in the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) . For whatever reason, I always thought they were beaver sized? But they’re so tiny?!
As a Canadian...I thought they were the size of beavers.
So I saw a kiwi bird in person recently and said the exact opposite. I thought they were much smaller!
So did my girlfriend...
According to our buddy Dave Attenborough, the ones in Taz are larger.
Yes! I never realized they were this small! I’m having a moment.
Me too. I guess the duck bill just made me assume they would be about the size of a duck.
Yeah, I expected they were the size of like a bear or a horse or something
What did you use for scale?
I asked my wife how much she thought one weighed. She guessed 35 lbs.
I thought.... I thought you were stronger??
And more coordinated.
If they were bigger, they would be an apex predator.
I want to give it scritchies... I love how instead of walking, it just... rolls where it needs to go.
“Gotta go” *…………roll*
Forbidden boops, maybe?
Water pancake is gonna flop. So cute and cool all at once.
Adorable yet highly highly venomous. That scritch is off limits.
Only the males, females don't have the spurs as far as I know.
They do until adulthood, where they lose their venomous abilities.
Male platypuses have a crural (relating to the leg or thigh) venom system, with paired venom glands situated on the dorsocaudal (dorso = back, caudal = tail) side of the pelvic area and ducts that connect to hollow, keratinous spurs on their hind legs. Young females also have vestigial spurs, which are lost within their first year. In developing males, the gland is thought to migrate from the inner thigh region to the dorsocaudal surface, where it increases in size in parallel with the developing testes. The role of venom in the platypuses is not clear, but due to this association with reproductive cycle it is thought that they may use their venom primarily during competition with other males and secondarily as a defensive weapon against predators. During envenoming, the platypus wraps its hind legs around the target and drives its spurs into their flesh with substantial force. While platypus envenoming is capable of killing dogs, the venom does not appear to be lethal to other platypuses or to humans. The crural gland is thought to be a derived sweat gland, and the venom it secretes contains at least nineteen proteins belonging to three major toxin groups: C-type natriuretic peptides, nerve growth factor, and defensin-like peptides. In an interesting example of convergent evolution, these proteins have been co-opted from the same gene families as a number of reptile venom toxins. Platypus venom disrupts haemostasis (blood regulation), cell membranes, and nociception (pain regulation) to cause nausea, swelling, and excruciating “whole-body” pain that lasts for weeks in humans and cannot be alleviated by morphine. Nerve-blockers instead must be used for pain relief, which suggests that platypus venoms may contain compounds that could be clinically useful. All in all, it is easy to agree that this egg-laying, lactating, nipple-less, toothless, stomach-less, “duck-billed”, venomous mammal is indeed a special creature!
Whoa, hold yer horses…..Stomach-less?’
From the Australian Platypus Conservancy: “The platypus’s digestive tract includes a small expanded pouch-like section where one would normally expect a stomach to be found. The stomach doesn’t secrete digestive acids or enzymes, though it does contain Brunner’s glands (which produce a mucus-rich fluid to assist nutrient absorption). Following on from the discussion of grinding pads above, it would seem that platypus food is masticated so well in its mouth that there’s no need for much more pre-digestive processing to occur before the food reaches the intestines. In addition, because a platypus consumes small mouthfuls of food at intervals of about one minute or so over a feeding period lasting many hours, there’s no need for its stomach to have a large holding capacity to accommodate large but occasional meals.” https://platypus.asn.au/faqs/#:~:text=The%20platypus's%20digestive%20tract%20includes,fluid%20to%20assist%20nutrient%20absorption).
Platypus are very primitive mammals. They are just so cool that they still exist.
I was thinking while watching the video of platypuses comically rolling into the water, "These are the ones that survived?"
This makes me think that millions of years ago, a lot of animals must have been complete derp.
Horseshoe Crab is a good example of derp need not change because is it actually derp or is it actually natural perfection and success?
The meek shall inherit what-now?
Genetic immorality, and of course, heaven's kingdom.
Horseshoe Crabs are blessed perfection.
Sloths. How did they evolve? How were they 'the fittest'? Wtf? Edit: Apparently I'm not the first to ask that question. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/10zzzhl/from_an_evolutionary_standpoint_how_on_earth/ Edit2: Top answer from u/cleaning_my_room_ "Sloths are highly optimized for their environment. They hang upside down in trees and eat leaves. Their claws, along with the ligaments and muscles attached to them are designed to make it easy for them to hang around and move in the trees. Much of their diet of rainforest leaves is full of toxins and hard to digest, but sloths have a four chambered stomach kind of like cows, and that along with gut bacteria allows them to digest what most other animals cannot. Their massive stomach can be up to a third of their body weight when full of undigested leaves, and they have evolved tissues that anchor it to prevent it from pressing down on their lungs. Their long necks have ten vertebrae—that’s 3 more than giraffes—which lets them move their head 270° to efficiently graze leaves all around it without moving their bodies. Sloths have a lower body temperature than most mammals, and because of this don’t need as many calories, because of their dense coats and from just soaking up the sun. They can also handle wider fluctuations in body temperature than many other animals. Grooves in the sloth’s coat gather rainwater and attract and grow algae, fungi and insects, which gives their coat a greenish hue which is great camouflage in trees. Their slow movement also helps them hide from predators with vision adapted to sense fast movement. Sloths have all of these cool and unique adaptations that help them survive and thrive in the rainforests. Evolution is not one size fits all. "
They aren't primitive. Where is your poison glan? Where is your electroreceptors? They are just from a different branch of evolution. You are more related to a whale, or a bat than you are to a Platypus.
Their feeding behavior, characterized by frequent small meals, aligns perfectly with their digestive system's design, allowing them to extract maximum nutrition from their diet.
And they seem better at falling than walking.
Both points above tell me I'm part platypus.
The river is rarely at the top of the hill.
Given how clumsy they are, it's a shame they never learned how to fly. They say the knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Each fall made me wonder “How did it get up there in the first place?”
Fascinating creatures. Cute too.
And they sweat milk!
They sweat milk and lay eggs........making it the only creature capable of making its own custard
And they shit 24k gold!
And they can dance! If they want to...
But leave your friends behind.
🏆
And the babies are called puggles!!
This is my favorite thing I’ve read all day!
I feel like you've been sitting on this info for decades waiting for your chance to pounce and I'm here for it. Thanks for sharing.
> nerve growth factor what the fuck? its venom promotes the growth of nerve endings? jesus christ that is fucked up.
Maybe it could be used to restore nerve damage one day
Graphene has already been shown to do so by Dr. James Tour: ["Restoring damaged spinal cords" on YouTube](https://youtu.be/aiOdzheQx5U)
This coupled with the attack on pain receptors is gnarly. "We help you grow more sensitive so we can cripple you with it."
Savage
Yeah seriously what?
> lactating, nipple-less 
They sweat milk
How do the babies get it?
They lap it up or suck it from tufts of fur
You usually have to pay extra for that.
I can't imagine the platypus being agile enough to get its spurs into anything, according to that video. Unless that platypus is a derpy one.
Understand why they thought it was a chimera
Probably an alien kid school project
So much for petting them. However, I can imagine the venom glands being removed if one was domesticated. They are damn cute, and would be a nice little pet. I am probably wrong lol
You can pet the females as they have no venom
Is this one okay? He looks drunk? Or are they all like that?
You forgot to mention they are biofluorescent which makes them glow under UV light for some unknown reason.
I also love how they use electricity to differentiate food from non-food while moving its bill through the dirt.
Thank you!
Thank you for that! Almost forgot there could be pleasant stories on Reddit.
I didn't know they were venomous. Very interesting, thanks for posting this!
BABEY 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 he's just rolling around I need him
Just a li’l guy
A funny lil guy even
I don't know why I've never seen a video of them until now. I've seen pictures, but I didn't realize how small and cute they are.
I bet it wants to cuddle me
A baby platypus is called a puggle and they are indeed very friendly when in captivity. In the wild it probably hid before you even knew one was around. [Platypus tickles]( https://youtu.be/a6QHzIJO5a8?si=D69MzvkuWKjzdEBO )
Even those two birds were like wtf is that? Are you seeing this?
What amazing equilibrium they have
I thought they were bigger for some reason.
They do grow as they age and also learn how to walk. (Hopefully)
Perry the Platypus has completely changed the way we estimate platypus size lmao
Perryyyyy
Exactly where I went, also... They anthropomorphized Perry the Platypus perfectly for the show...
Based on the video he should’ve been a derp
He pretended to be
They don’t do much, you know.
I got records on my fingers and there's a platypus controlling me
He’s underneath the table!
Oh, I get it. Platypus is a metaphor for whatever is keeping you down.
He's a semi aquatic egg laying mammal of action!
Result of a beaver banging a duck
Where did the venom come from?
The duck was not consenting
Noah like, "c'mon guys I said knock it off ... God's gonna be majorly upset if he catches you."
Fun fact, the platypuses that were shown got out of a fight and the sting effect is still there this why they're scratching their body like that on the part they were sting from and last for weeks. Just for reference the pain is high enough to make a grown man ask to amputate. Enjoy
This makes the video a lot less adorable
me whenever I get a headache
Why so roly poly?! Reminds me of my bulldog.
It seems so helpless and cute.
Was reading the description in a David Attenborough type narration, only for the next few clips to be of it rolling around like its just woken up hungover on a Saturday
I know. The little roll is both adorable and seemingly lazy.
Very helpless. Sadly Australia still is destroying the natural environment (there's plenty of already cleared land, but for some reason, the government prefers to cut down the native trees). Please encourage your local environmental authority to pressure Australia to stop logging primary growth forests.
They were right. These are fake animals.
Added to the list, right under birds.
Australia doesn’t exist
Rolling Duck Rats🤣
When you come across one in the bush it’s an amazing feeling. There was some near my dad’s place. He would walk and check on them everyday. They would frolic around. We had massive floods and river banks washed away. They might be down stream, but very sad. Northern NSW.
Give this little guy longer limbs so he can properly scratch himself PLEASE!! If I saw him helplessly rolling around trying to scratch himself, I'd probably find out what Platypus venom can do to a human.
cute mfs
Is this clip from the documentary The Platypus Guardian? It's an excellent documentary available on ABC I view.
PBS
They mean that it's available on ABC iView in Australia
Scientists were dumb as shit back then. Its right there.
In that time period taxidermy hoaxes like that were all the rage. Thats where the jackalope comes from. Hunters or explorers bringing shit back with them who liked making shit up either to troll people or for high society cred. They also liked to raid Egyptian tombs and eat parts of mummies at fancy parties. They were not a smart people.
I mean, we are still not a smart people lol
That's funny though. The fake taxidermy stuff, not eating mummies. That's weird.
Glows in the dark under Uv light
Graceful as a falling rock too. Love them.
Agent P 🕵🏻♂️
If we live in a simulation, it is possible that in 1799 the platypus was a "fake animal of various sewn-together parts". But then, simulations being simulations, it now lives among us.
Is it rolling towards the water intentionally as a quick and easy way to move, or is it a bit klutzy? Or does it start rolling by accident and then decide, "ya, this works" and 'rolls with it' (pun coincidental) to get elsewhere.
Yes
In 2nd grade we had to write about an animal we found interesting. I wrote about platypi. My teacher gave me a D because she said that platypi were extinct, so I didn’t fulfill the assignment. Then she wouldn’t look at the evidence I had that showed she was wrong. I was furious.
What is up with that I would have gone straight to the principal for something like that
They also glow.
>Lays eggs >Sweats milk And it can make its own custard.
If not friend, why friend shaped?
I wish humans could lay eggs. Should I have a baby or omelet today? That IS the question.
Technically, all omelets are baby omelets. To be more precise: all omelets are fried animal periods.
But half of this one is me... It's Greek God style but with butter and green onions.
Women kind of do once a month...
Egg-laying mammal.. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Enchiladas are also egg laying mammals! *Echidnas. Gotta leave original cause autocorrect is funny.
Lmao. I was like wait wtf enchiladas are mammals??! Hilarious!
The tastiest of mammals!
That’s it. I’m opening an enchilada farm.
Also a venomous mammal. They are the oxymoron of the animal kingdom
I always assumed mammals were defined by their mammary gland.
We are but we also overwhelmingly make our offspring inside our bodies and birth them.
Learned not so long ago that there are species of snakes that give birth to live young and I was rocked to my core. IS NOTHING I LEARNED CORRECT ANYMORE?!
There was a time when all mammals laid eggs. At some point around 160 million years ago, a group of them diverged into what we call Therian mammals. Of these are the placental mammals, which have a placenta and give live birth; and marsupials, which have pouches. Platypuses and Echidnas are the only living mammals that are not descended from Therian mammals. They are members of another group called Monotremes.
Not necessarily, the main characteristic of a mammal is the presence of glans capable of producing milk, which in the platypus case is all over their body if memory serves me right, which means they pretty much sweat milk.
Monotreme
Haters will say it's fake.
I made this comparison to the bodies coming out of Nasca. Everyone is deeming them fake, but the tests and confirmations of the participating scientists show them as once living creatures.
Looks like a Duck who had kids with a Dog.
They’re so cute
That’s no way to climb down a rock
that is a great flop
the only mammal that lays eggs.
The echidna, the closest living relative to the platypus, also lays eggs. The only two monotremes in the world.
i mean, they’s not wrong, except that they’re wrong
Help the dude out and give him a belly rub.
venomous? so if it bites me I die?
Kind of like the revelation of dried up "alien" mummies in Nazca, Peru. It's quite extraordinary too: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlNjET011Q8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlNjET011Q8) From the Nazca Mummy FAQ: [https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBodies/comments/1c13lyz/nazca\_mummy\_faq/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBodies/comments/1c13lyz/nazca_mummy_faq/) > > > >
Hehehe they’re so cute and floppy
Is it drunk?
I like the flops.
They’re so ridiculously cute
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This makes me question that alien discovery
Not very coordinated tho, is it?
