Platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Monotreme
- Family
- Ornithorhynchidae
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By night
- Continent
- Oceania
- Habitat
- Rivers and lakes
- Conservation status
- Near threatened
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its bill senses the faint electric fields of prey, so it can hunt with eyes, ears and nostrils closed.
- When the first preserved specimen reached Europe in 1799, some scientists suspected a hoax.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q15343 · All animals · All entries