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Old August 30th, 2012 #45
Hunter Morrow
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I did not know this...

The platypus is rightly held as one of the most bizarre animals. It is a beaver with a duck's mouth and a duck's eggs but it nurses. The males have poison glands. But what I did not know is that when they swim for their food they do not primarily rely on their sight or even their smell. They close their eyes, ears and nose and rely on a low grade electricity-driven sense called electro-location in their bills. They are a part of the only 2 mammal family (the other being the echidna) to have it.

Pretty neat!