Honorary dinosaur 🦖 of the month: platy
70 2019-07-26 by Cdace
I’m so tired of this gay cat shit so here’s drama’s mascot instead
The platypus is among nature's most unlikely animals. In fact, the first scientists to examine a specimen believed they were the victims of a hoax. The animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species: the duck (bill and webbed feet), beaver (tail), and otter (body and fur). Males are also venomous. They have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe.
Platypuses hunt underwater, where they swim gracefully by paddling with their front webbed feet and steering with their hind feet and beaverlike tail. Folds of skin cover their eyes and ears to prevent water from entering, and the nostrils close with a watertight seal. In this posture, a platypus can remain submerged for a minute or two and employ its sensitive bill to find food.
These Australian mammals are bottom feeders. They scoop up insects and larvae, shellfish, and worms in their bill along with bits of gravel and mud from the bottom. All this material is stored in cheek pouches and, at the surface, mashed for consumption. Platypuses do not have teeth, so the bits of gravel help them to “chew” their meal.
On land, platypuses move a bit more awkwardly. However, the webbing on their feet retracts to expose individual nails and allow the creatures to run. Platypuses use their nails and feet to construct dirt burrows at the water's edge.
Platypus reproduction is nearly unique. It is one of only two mammals (the echidna is the other) that lay eggs.
Females seal themselves inside one of the burrow's chambers to lay their eggs. A mother typically produces one or two eggs and keeps them warm by holding them between her body and her tail. The eggs hatch in about ten days, but platypus infants are the size of lima beans and totally helpless. Females nurse their young for three to four months until the babies can swim on their own.
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-07-26
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1 capthazelwoodsflask 2019-07-26
Finally some quality dino/platy posting, it feels like rdrama again. Cats are the lowest of low hanging fruit and cat posters should be banned for being lazy.
1 Momruepari 2019-07-26
cats are overrated lazy shits
1 capthazelwoodsflask 2019-07-26
Someone's seething today.
1 Seattle_Bussy_Lmao 2019-07-26
based
1 Kellere31 2019-07-26
At least we still have you Cdace! 😘🤗
In these trying times on r/drama some people just keep some sanity alive! 😩👌
1 XhotwheelsloverX 2019-07-26
Ooh a crossover episode
1 trexmundi 2019-07-26
This is synapsid propaganda. Have they gotten to your cdace? Are they holding your family? Your parasaurolophus harem?
1 Cdace 2019-07-26
Nah platy is cool he’s gonna help consume humanity
1 plast1c45 2019-07-26
ARCHOSAUR GANG RISE UP
PARTY LIKE IT'S 240 MYA
1 trexmundi 2019-07-26
Reminder that Walt Disney invented furries to prevent the synapsid lizardmen from taking control of the world in 1934. Archosaurs are the only true heirs to Earth.
1 plast1c45 2019-07-26
Birds outnumber us 10 to 1, and to think they aren't the dominant species
1 trexmundi 2019-07-26
Yet they are but a shadow of their former glory. Cute though.
1 istural 2019-07-26
Is platy the prophet who escaped being sent to the plasma fold?
1 Cdace 2019-07-26
Nah but he’s chill