#platypuses

[blackulax]

They are just like me forreal

[natalikoromotoart]

Pleasantly Platypus🪷📚🥚🎀

[kness]

Starry night platypus, porcelain and gold

[skydarcyedwards]

Wet beast experiences bliss (a very good scritch)

We watched this tiny platypus for a while, diving and feeding. Then it came out onto the bank, surprisingly bold, to have a scratch.

I'm obsessed with monotremes.

[antiqueanimals]

Duck-Billed Platypus by Louis A. Sargent. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

Internet Archive

[todayontumblr]

Monday, September 4.

The Platypus.

Monday. There is no escape. It is the January of days of the week, and quite frankly, we've had enough of its nonsense. Had it up to *here*, in fact. So for that reason, whether it is school, college, university, work, or indeed not work that you are facing this morning, we bring light amid its darkness and drudgery. Please find, for you, a commemoration dedicated to perhaps the most curious of mammals: the #platypus. It is an animal simply so strange it makes one wonder why we are so keen to find new life on other planets, when that which we have here on Planet E is just so absurd. It is also so irresistible, so silly, and so very squishy, that we simply cannot get enough of their endless charms. 

[clawmarks]

Naturgeschichte der Säugetiere - G. H. Schubert - 1889 - via Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

[cremsie]

If you want to I'd LOVE to see what a platypus would look like in your style 🦆 🦫

Love these little weirdos

[gherkin-saute]

PLATYPUSES 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆ARE REAL ANIMALS???!??!!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I THOUGHT THEY WERE LIKE THE MYTHICAL MAGICAL CREATURES🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🧞‍♂️🧞‍♂️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🐉🐉🐉🐉 I DIDNT KNOW THEY ACTUALLY EXISTED?????!!!!😣😣😣😣☹️☹️☹️

[hotchocolatedoodles]

Baby Rui and his platypus plush 🎈🧸

Context is this TikTok I was sent:

[darkersolstice]

Source

[cookie-on-the-floor]

WxS Hc:

Rui goes as a platypus every Halloween. Eventually, he convinces the rest of WxS to also be platypuses. Emu is obviously pink, Tsukasa put fairy lights in his and glows like THE STAR HE IS, Rui decides to go as Perry from phineas and freb, and he somehow gets Nene to go as Dr. Doof. They get so much candy. So much candy.

[squishroom]

How absolutely incredible would it be if in the new seasons of phineas and ferb, at some point, Perry is fighting under a UV light, and his fur glows/looks brown in reference to the fact that scientists discovered that platypi glow teal under UV light

[daisukitoo]

Beauty and the Beaks

[clawmarks]

The wild beasts of the world - 1909 - via Internet Archive