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

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      And echidnas.

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

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        the new coke v pepsi

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        Just be sure you don’t mention echidna custard in front of Ken Penders.

      • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
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        Echidnas have a four-headed penis. You’re welcome.

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          Just like normal humans, then?

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      Dark.

      Also. Where can I try some?

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

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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          Wait…. People farm the weirdos?

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            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.

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              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!)

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                The human urge to domesticate anything that is slightly cute

                • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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                  Hell, we’ll even try to domesticate things that are anything but cute, like crocodiles, fish and spiders

          • DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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            Er…no… Not me…

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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      It can make it’s own breakfast

      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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        yes but what about second breakfast

      • itsnotits@lemmy.world
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        make its* own breakfast

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

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

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      Hey? Where’s Perry?

      • computergeek125@lemmy.world
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        fedora themed music starts playing

        Do be do be do, bah
        Do be do be do, bah

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    No stomach? Hadn’t heard that one before

    • regnn@infosec.pub
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      If something is too weird, some of the oddities tend to get overlooked.

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      Bizarre beasts episode on this:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Rzx7yeh7c

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      I wonder how they process food.

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        Stomachs aren’t necessary… You can jump straight to the large intestine. Even humans can survive like that

        Obviously, they’re useful. It’s another stage of digestion, which means more energy and nutrients are extracted from your food. It widens your viable food sources, just like chewing does

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    deleted by creator

    • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
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      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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        Platypus have been around for over 110 million years. Nothing broken about that build!

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          “broken build” here likely refers to the phrase as defined by gamers to function as synonymous to “overpowered”.

          As in, “the build is so broken you can’t/it is difficult to play against it”. This phraseology could be used by either an ally or an enemy, but it contextually changes connotation from positive for allies to negative for enemies.

          Build is often used as a shorthand for a character’s combination of items, skills, and levels (as the various games define it).

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            Thanks, I (mis-?) interpreted it as a gamers build that doesn’t work because they spread abilities rather than min-maxing.

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              It’s an odd one. At a guess, the idea is that the build is so good / powerful that it breaks the game (or, indeed, the meta) for everyone else.

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          So they were created about the same time as dinosaurs and flowers? Evolution was feeling really creative at that part of Cretaceous.

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        It’s like a Swiss army knife of biological features

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      After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.

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    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

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      what the fuck

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

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          So I guess that’s partly why most mammals’ milk glands are in the abdomen. Other than primates, I only know that elephants also have mammaries on the breasts

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        You got an ancestor that did that too. Part of why platypuses are so damn weird is because mammalian ancestors kept facing evolutionary bottlenecks. Platypuses are more like proto mammals than us placentals

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    And they sweat milk!

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      What the hell?

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        If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.

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          They have glands but no nipples.

        • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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          They must have glands. Unless they have milk for blood.

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            Why… Wh- what? Do you sweat blood?

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              … you don’t?!

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                It’s blood-comma-sweat, not “blood sweat”.

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          *their x 2.

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          So are they really mammals?

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            They’re monotremes.

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            Definitely. I for one accept our fellow mammal platypuses.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        https://youtube.com/shorts/MYwgoGQBQXg

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

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      Valid reason to bring it back.

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        They did bring it back lol

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      And guess what color they fluoresce.

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    It is worth mentioning that when the first stuffed sample of platypus was sent to Britain, the scientists thought it is a joke.

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      And some of those same scientists later organized a mass slaughter of thousands of platypuses in order to determine if the stories about them were true. Science, bitches!

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        it all started from laughter to slaughter.

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

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      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/

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        so whats the chamber between the mouth and intestine called?

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          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”?

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          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.

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

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

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

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            Shit your being downvoted, now I have to go look myself… if I don’t return I likely have been abducted by egg laying mammals

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      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

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

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

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    Seeing living platypus is high on my bucket list, I’m still not convinced it’s not a hoax

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      You can just go see one at the zoo; they’re usually with the marsupials and chupacabras.

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        Sure they’re not with the pumas?

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          What did I tell you about making up animals?

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        🤔

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        I thought you put capybara and just kinda thought you were also implying they were a pseudo SCP.

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      You’re very unlikely to see one in the wild, they’re nocturnal and their burrow entries are under creek banks

      In zoos they live in the nocturnal animal section, probably swimming

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    Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?

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        Hell yeah

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

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      You don’t see them though. The national park boards say “look for ripples in the water!”.

      If you see ripples, you’re about to die.

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        If you see ripples, you’re about to die.

        Yeah, but from which threat? Snake? Spider? Swimming kangaroo?

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          I meant the platypusses, but legit the number of times I’ve just been walking along a path and a snake has started thrashing around in the long grass next to me. All the snakes here are dead-in-eight-minutes type snakes.

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          I would rather Australian risks than those of bears and big cats

          Aussie snakes try to keep away from people, they aren’t aggressive.

          Our spiders are so like those elsewhere (compare Redback to black widow)

          You’re unlikely to see a kangaroo in water. If you do, keep away from it just like you keep away from wild animals anyway

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        Well, if you live in Australia, you’re about to die… So many deadly things always just round the corner, or under the seat!

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    Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS

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      God was tripping balls that day

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          I wish we could go back to that era of memes.

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            Meme the change you wish to see in the world. :p

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      Truly the “Kings Cup” of animals.

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

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