Posted on 05/18/2008 6:38:57 PM PDT by neverdem
LOL!
Oooh! Pretty fur. It, along with several of its good friends, would make a nice coat.
I don't think you'd want that bill!
Ha!
Actually, platypuses (platypi?) were quite normal looking in the early days. They looked pretty much like beavers. But then, one day, the Platypus Supreme Court ruled that restricting marriage to a union between male and female platypuses was unconstitutional. The descent into madness started with male platypuses marrying each other, but eventually some began to turn a lustful eye toward the ducks who inhabited the same waters, and the rest is history.
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That is what I always thought, too. So do many others, which is why this thread is so funny. But I got intrigued by the other animal mentioned above, the echidna, which I do not recall hearing of before this: not only an egg-laying mammal, but in addition has no nipples, body temperature only 30C or so, living when the dinosaurs roamed, and able to quite easily outsmart the biologists studying them. I would love to see an echidna train, though I know I never will. Now, I am not sure which of God's creatures I nominate as His most humorous... there have to be dozens in the running, but echidna has to be near the top.
The best description I saw online is from World Wildlife Federation
Wikipedia's, which I find good for pure scientific articles, has a good article about echidnas with some weird complimentary facts included. I'm surprised they didn't include the echidna's very low body temperature, though.
The Platypus might not agree
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How Gary-Larson-esque.
It cheweth not the cud, nor cloveth the foot. Ergo NOT Kosher.
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