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Why the platypus is considered a chimera

It has a duck's bill, a beaver's tail, and an otter's fur. Oh and it also lays eggs. Meet the platypus, one of the strangest mammals in the animal kingdom.

09/20/2019 6:20 AM

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25 comments

  • Ruth L.
    04/13/2021 06:38

    Chimera is a lion half goat and snake right

  • Lance B.
    04/03/2021 01:13

    Chimera is a lion half goat and snake right

  • JY-reveal V.
    03/03/2021 00:23

    Psyduck is that you? Ash here

  • Jay A.
    02/26/2021 06:35

    Ferry the platypus

  • Cathy R.
    01/17/2021 07:37

    Water is life! No more pipelines/ fracking.

  • Cathy R.
    01/17/2021 07:36

    Water is life! No more pipelines/ fracking.

  • Hannah A.
    01/16/2021 03:10

    So they’re freaking venomous wtf Australia even your cute ones are fucked

  • Farid A.
    01/15/2021 16:43

    Ornithorynque . In English Platypus.

  • Camille B.
    01/14/2021 16:48

    Falls du mehr über Schnabeltiere wissen willst,

  • Luis R.
    01/14/2021 15:31

    he has more than just mad skill he's got a beaver tail and a bill

  • Waclaw K.
    01/14/2021 07:30

    Only Australia live!!!???????

  • Carol H.
    01/13/2021 21:44

    Must we blame everything on climate change? Absolute rubbish. It’s man!

  • Teresa G.
    01/13/2021 21:40

    que mal :(

  • Lori M.
    01/13/2021 21:18

    Save the platypus’s!

  • Gulden L.
    01/13/2021 13:25

    😯

  • Manish T.
    01/13/2021 13:21

    https://youtu.be/SQz5MH2MapM

  • Leslie B.
    01/13/2021 13:21

    Just amazing! Your posts are such a great teaching tool.

  • Richard M.
    01/13/2021 11:14

    Tragic!

  • Les K.
    01/13/2021 11:00

    Years ago, near the Paddy River falls, I watched a platypus swimming to and from its burrow in a river pond. The tranquility of the pond and its surrounds gave me a feeling of serenity, until I dropped my bloody camera in the river.

  • Agung W.
    01/13/2021 09:34

    Mouth like a aduck and the body like warlus 😍