- DJDarren ( @DJDarren@thelemmy.club ) English107•3 days ago
As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.
- dustycups ( @prex@aussie.zone ) English54•3 days ago
And echidnas.
I’m not sure if I’m and echidna custard or platypus custard kind of person.
- Sabata ( @Sabata11792@ani.social ) English9•2 days ago
When you cheat and choose all the perks in the character creator.
- icedcoffee ( @icedcoffee@lemm.ee ) English14•2 days ago
Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?
- CarbonIceDragon ( @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ) English59•3 days ago
No stomach? Hadn’t heard that one before
- regnn ( @regnn@infosec.pub ) English37•3 days ago
If something is too weird, some of the oddities tend to get overlooked.
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English4•2 days ago
Bizarre beasts episode on this:
- Ashelyn ( @Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English55•3 days ago
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
- ramirezmike ( @ramirezmike@programming.dev ) English22•3 days ago
what the fuck
- 100_kg_90_de_belin ( @100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ) English19•3 days ago
The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) English2•2 days ago
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
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English19•3 days ago
No stomach?! Does food go straight to the colon?
- perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English38•2 days ago
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
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 12•3 days ago
so whats the chamber between the mouth and intestine called?
- perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English15•2 days ago
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”?
- ouRKaoS ( @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ) English15•3 days ago
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.
- LifeInMultipleChoice ( @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•3 days ago
Thanks for doing so, did you figure out why they glow?
- perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English4•2 days ago
Lol, I think that’s only in the cartoon, eh.
- LifeInMultipleChoice ( @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•2 days ago
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
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English4•3 days ago
Oh, is it like a gizard type of thing sort of?
- 100_kg_90_de_belin ( @100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ) English23•3 days ago
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
- MrGerrit ( @MrGerrit@feddit.nl ) English3•2 days ago
- ShaggySnacks ( @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ) English17•3 days ago
And that’s the reason you can only find platypuses in Australia.
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) English7•3 days ago
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.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) English3•2 days ago
If you see ripples, you’re about to die.
Yeah, but from which threat? Snake? Spider? Swimming kangaroo?
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) English2•1 day ago
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.
- Owl ( @BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ) English3•2 days ago
Platypussies*
- blackluster117 ( @blackluster117@possumpat.io ) English14•3 days ago
It’s also adorable! Also, the babies are called platypups!
- ASDraptor ( @ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place ) English13•3 days ago
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?
- GiveMemes ( @GiveMemes@jlai.lu ) English7•3 days ago
Got a 2x weakness to electric and psychic or a 4x to smackdown>earthquake
- Routhinator ( @Routhinator@startrek.website ) English3•3 days ago
It is the Avatar.
- Destide ( @sirico@feddit.uk ) English13•3 days ago
Bin parts build
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) English13•3 days ago
And somehow we haven’t driven it to extinction yet? That’s wild!
- edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) English8•3 days ago
Probably because no one has decided to eat it yet.
- thefartographer ( @thefartographer@lemm.ee ) English7•3 days ago
I’m sure someone has. It probably tastes like popcorn or something
- Dr. Wesker ( @wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ) English12•3 days ago
I’m curious now how a mammal develops in an external egg. The process seems so weird.
- Moah ( @Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•2 days ago
YES!! This is the content in here to see.