Platypus

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Platypus
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Description

• Webbed feet
• Streamline body
• Broad tail
• Duck like bill
• Two layers of hair

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Eating Habits

• Forages on the bottom of river for food.
• Prey include works insects crustaceans, and
  small vertebrates such as tadpoles.
• Food is then carried to surface in cheek pouches
  and then eaten.

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Breeding

• Occurs on the spring
• Mating takes place in the water
• 1 to 3 eggs are laid in nesting burrow
• Eggs hatch after 10 to 12 days

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Other interesting facts

• The male has a spur on the inner side of each
  hind limb.
• The platypus is a cousin to the anteater.
• The platypus can consume up to half of its body
  weight.