When you cheat and choose all the perks in the character creator.
As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.
Evolution was all like: Ok, so which mutations would you like to advance? The venomous thing? The aquatic thing? The electrocuting enemies thing? The no stomach hack? The “Fun at parties” hack?
Platypus: Yes.
After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.
An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.
Platypus have been around for over 110 million years. Nothing broken about that build!
Also well known for foiling evil plots while wearing a fedora.
No stomach? Hadn’t heard that one before
It is worth mentioning that when the first stuffed sample of platypus was sent to Britain, the scientists thought it is a joke.
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!
it all started from laughter to slaughter.
Seeing living platypus is high on my bucket list, I’m still not convinced it’s not a hoax
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
And that’s the reason you can only find platypuses in Australia.
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.
If you see ripples, you’re about to die.
Yeah, but from which threat? Snake? Spider? Swimming kangaroo?
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
And somehow we haven’t driven it to extinction yet? That’s wild!
Probably because no one has decided to eat it yet.
Wombats, koala, kangaroo, and emu eggs are easier to catch/find and were the main meat in places where those are common
