#platypod

[liamphotoatl]

(Liam Photography Podcast)

[doomdoomofdoom]

no thoughts today. just him.

[weaselle]

imagine how frustrating it would be to show a platypus to an alien.

they would have no frame of reference for how weird it is. Everything from earth would be equally wtf to them.

They'd be like, yeah, i get it, it's one of the weirdest things i've seen in my life

and you'd be all, no my friend you have no idea how weird this little guy is

and they'd be like, yeah but have you seen crabs? crabs!? like wtf dude

and you'd go, no shut up everything turns into crabs, listen -

and they'd say whaddoyoumeeeeeean everything turns into crabs!?!?

and they'd never understand why platypussies are so great

[prettiestplatypus]

a platypic to be ranked :3

Cute little babies! I bet they're real soft and eepy I give the 2 of them a combined score of 20/10

[darkersolstice]

Source

[adriatique-139]

Just remembered the existence of seahorses

[protector-utahime-miku]

a wonderful creature! very small and oh so simple to hold gently in the palm of your hand~

Baby platypus By: Unknown photographer From: Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge 1971

[liamphotoatl]

(Liam Photography Podcast)

[themelessadhdthoghts]

Jazzy Animal Stuff

A group of platypuses is called a paddle.

When referring to multiple platypuses, you can also say platypus, platypi, or platypods.

Since platypuses are such weird creatures, people originally assumed platypuses sweat milk. (They do not)

Platypuses have a poisonous gland which means they can be venomous.

pigeons have a special feather that makes a funky noise when they fly, to alert other pigeons of possible danger nearby.

there are blue bees called blue carpenter bees. The honey they make is a similar consistency to peanut butter. They live alone and aren't very aggressive. They don't make wax

Bees dance to communicate

Bees breath through their skin and drown in the rain.

Bees fight invading wasps, not by stinging them, but by aggressively hugging them until they overheat.

Beehives are usually made facing east so they can get the sun to warm them up in the morning.

Female bees get rid of male bees by starving them and dragging them out of the hive while beating them.

Female bees kill drunk male bees

Bumble bees live in the ground

rosy maple moths don't have mouths, and the adults die in a matter of days. The larvae have a venomous sting!

Comet moths have a mouth and guts, but neither work so they only survive for a week.

The Arctic woolly bear moth is the longest living moth, and can live for up to 7 years in the wild.

Luna moths have scales on their wings that reflect light

rabbits are not rodents, but lagomorphs.

They don't have toe beans, so if you shave their feet their basically just walking on bone. Don't shave rabbit feet

snub noses monkeys sneeze in the rain due to their upturned noses.

Luna moth caterpillars deter predators by making clicking noises and regurgitating a gross fluid as a warning.

The North America Walnut Sphinx caterpillar can scream at a volume of 80 decibels.

jellyfish are the longest living multicellular organasim on earth.

ferrets like to be swung. I wrote this last year, I'm not quite sure what this means.

the babies are born so young they don't even have fully formed faces.

They are absolutely miniscule, and the only real feature they have are claws to cling onto the mother's nippels for milk.

Around 30-40 of them are born at the same time, but only 4 of them survive. The mother eats the babies that die off at the beginning.

They got their name from their ears, which go bright red.

cats mimic the sounds of their prey sometimes, like chirping at birds when they're trying to hunt them.

snails can sleep for up to 3 years.

giraffes have the same amount of vertebrae as humans.

horse stomachs are the same size as a football and their stomachs can explode if they eat too much.

Horses die really easily. This can be from lying down for too long (their lungs collapse) running for too long (heart faliure) breaking a leg (you have to kill them if this happens).

Horses sleep standing.

Horses have an almost 360° field of vision.

Horses are just really weird. My friends wonder why I'm scared of horses, but the face of a medium sized horse is like. A third of my dad. Ans my dad is t a l l.

pika's are not rodents, but lagomorphs, which make them more closely related to rabbits then mice.

They are also known as 'screaming hares' since they make a screaming noise.

Also I'm like. 90% sure pikachu was based off of a pika so. Say hi to your cousin pichaku.

seagulls can feel grief, happiness and guilt.

There is a small claw halfway up their lower leg that let's them sit on high ledges without falling off.

Both seagull parents take care of their eggs.

Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water.

There are around 50 types of Seagulls.

Seagulls are extremely smart.

I love seagulls.

[prettiestplatypus]

Well that explains why Lillie has so many of those cute stuffed platypodes... Thank you to my friend Fae for making this wonderful collaboration comic possible, please go follow on her socials!

And if you'd like to read the Prettiest Platypus you can read it here on Webtoons

[protector-utahime-miku]

oh woe... how could such a wonderful creature be kept from us? truly an unspeakable tragedy...

Camopus from Earthbound 64 / Mother 3 (cancelled game)

[platypaws]

fun fact! because platypus and octopus are greek in origin, their plural form is in fact platypodes and octopodes. platypuses or octopuses are also fine tho. the thing is i am very confident that doctor octopus knows this and i am even more confident that doofensmirtz is convinced the correct plural form is octopi and platypi.

PLATYPODES NCDNNC im not even gonna check if that’s really true or not, i will literally only ever say platypodes now

anyway SEE, so much potential for a joke there. dr octopus is gonna be so annoyed with doof by the end of his visit <3

[project-sekai-facts]

we know that shizuku likes little birds, airi likes cats, haruka likes penguins, rui likes platypodes...are there any other characters that have implied favorite animals?

shiho loves small & cute animals, and has a fondness for bunnies in particular. she plays a pet raising game on her phone (that iirc is specifically centred around bunnies) and is now a part of the animal caretaker committee at school, which takes care of the school's rabbits. mafuyu probably doesn't have a favorite because she has a hard time telling whether she likes or dislikes something, but i think she might also like rabbits. they show up in her story a lot.

minori loves animals in general. she has an otter t-shirt, she has a pet dog, she's been on animal care committee since middle school. i can't think of any biases outside of her dog though.

niigo does a psychology test in mafuyu's depths of despair card story and one question asks them to pick an animal. ena picks a hedgehog or chinchilla and mizuki picks a flamingo. i don't know if these are their favorite animals but it's what they think of first.

i don't think it would be a stretch to say tsukasa's is a pegasus. obviously it's the translation of his family name but he goes on about it constantly and even has the flying horse carousel in his sekai for extra measure.

[howlingaround]

If I had a platypus for every time an animated character suddenly had thick black eyebrows during really smooth animated segments of the opening...

... I would have two platypodes, which is almost as weird as the plural of platypus being "platypodes".

[terasutetrad-ruikamishiro]

it always messes me up a bit when I see the actual size of platypodes