This is not the duck billed platypus in question, you idiot! This is a stock photo
Posted on 04/07/2023 9:29:26 AM PDT by dennisw
An Australian man was charged with stealing a platypus from its wild habitat and taking the animal on a tour of a Queensland town, local police said.
The suspect, a 26-year-old man, grabbed the platypus from a river and carried it onto a public train on Tuesday morning, BBC News reported. Queensland Police shared surveillance images of the man and an accompanying woman boarding the train around 11 a.m.
"Two people were observed boarding a train at Morayfield Station with the animal wrapped in a towel, patting it and showing it to fellow commuters, it's believed the pair were travelling toward Caboolture," the police update read.
Police identified the man and woman but haven't been able to locate the platypus, the BBC reported.
Platypuses are endemic to Australia, according to the Australian Museum, and have a protected status, meaning they're not endangered but "near threatened."
"Taking a platypus from the wild is not only illegal
Platypuses are a unique animal — one of only two species of mammals to lay eggs. The Australian Museum said they are "largely a solitary animal" and live in freshwater systems, keeping a relatively low profile.
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They taste like chicken.
This is not the duck billed platypus in question, you idiot! This is a stock photo
They also have a poisonous claw\spur on I think hindfeet.
He/she/it identifies as a duck sometimes. </sarc>
If it has a bill like a duck, swims like a duck, and lays eggs like a duck...it’s clearly a duck-billed platypus.
Sounds like something Florida Man would do
Supposedly one of the most painful venoms known to man. Egyptian and Turkish military intel folks are famous for using poisonous animals as interrogation techniques. The get scorpions, snakes, spiders to envenomate, and then let the poor soul suffer and at the last minute give antivenin........and then the process starts over.
“They still can’t find the animal.”
Did you check next to the biscuits, gravy and mashed potatoes?
;>)
Platypus Ping
Perry! 😃
Perry!
Dr. Doofenshmirtz has him.
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