![](http://www.impactlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/platypus.jpg)
![](http://swenglishrantings.com/swenglishrantings/Bilder/News/platypusTwins.jpg)
![](http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photologue/photos/2009/09/02/cache/platypus_2210_600x450.jpg)
An unlikely mix of duck, beaver, and otter, the male platypus also has poisonous stingers on his rear feet.
![](http://thenationalevil.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/platypus-4.jpg)
![](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/08/us/08platypus.650.jpg)
![](http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2008/05/080507131453-large.jpg)
To: JoeProBono
Nowadays a good plastic surgeon could fix that ...
2 posted on
03/04/2010 3:27:02 PM PST by
x
To: JoeProBono
God has a wonderful sense of humor. They are precious.
To: JoeProBono
Also unique (along with echidna, again) among mammals in not dreaming...
7 posted on
03/04/2010 3:38:46 PM PST by
earglasses
(I was blind, and now I hear...)
To: JoeProBono
Male platypuses are poisonous?! Ya learn something new every day!
11 posted on
03/04/2010 3:44:43 PM PST by
Reaganesque
("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
To: JoeProBono; Fred Nerks
12 posted on
03/04/2010 3:45:23 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Freedom is Priceless.)
To: JoeProBono
My favorite platypus is Perry on Phineas and Ferb!
![Image and video hosting by TinyPic](http://i45.tinypic.com/2a9r8sh.jpg)
The James Bond of all platypusses...er, platypusi?
13 posted on
03/04/2010 3:47:49 PM PST by
pillut48
("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
To: JoeProBono
18 posted on
03/04/2010 3:56:38 PM PST by
xp38
To: JoeProBono
22 posted on
03/04/2010 4:00:34 PM PST by
TASMANIANRED
(Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
To: JoeProBono
Great photos. I actually got to see some in the wild whilst in Australia. Yes, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction
To: Daffynition; goat granny
31 posted on
03/04/2010 4:43:02 PM PST by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
32 posted on
03/04/2010 4:45:52 PM PST by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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