Platypus Looks Strange on the Inside, Too

NY Times ^ | May 8, 2008 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

[neverdem]

LOL!

[blam]

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[mountainbunny]

Oooh! Pretty fur. It, along with several of its good friends, would make a nice coat.

[NicknamedBob]

"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!

[Uncle Ivan]

Likely doubtful, but I wonder if one could be tamed and trained.

It would be funny to have an attack platypus.

[mountainbunny]

Ha!

[fr_freak]

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.

[AFPhys]

I have always thought that the platypus was God’s way of showing his sense of humor.

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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.

[valkyry1]

Yes, yes, yes … another example of God’s sense of humor. LOL!

The Platypus might not agree

[SunkenCiv]

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[Chaguito]

How Gary-Larson-esque.

[CholeraJoe]

It cheweth not the cud, nor cloveth the foot. Ergo NOT Kosher.