Utkonos biography

What are you at all? And for a long time we did not have something strange and straight, right, right? So I decided to get a miraculously unknown little animal for you from the bowels. He looks as strange as possible, and what is living inside him, there is generally game on game, in short, he does not look like anything on our planet, be sure. Let's go look at him soon! So, the platypus Lat.

Ornithorhynchus anatinus - a waterfowl from a unit of one -pass. As it usually happens, all the most unknown garbage lives in Australia, and the platypus is no exception. The plaintos and sarcoeks are the only representatives of the unit single -pass, in addition to everything they have a heap of signs by which they can be safely written in reptiles, although they are not such. By the way, the Australians are very proud of them and even placed the plasticos on a coin of 20 cents.

Scientists first encountered the platypus only in the 18th century and received the name "Duck -shaped birds". What does it look like? To begin with, scientists were not in vain fought over what it was. Short -shaped, squat carcass, coated with wool, duck beak, beaver tail, on the paws of the membrane, there is no ears. The picture is folded mildly controversial.

The length of the plasticos is usually about half a meter, and weigh only a kilogram. Soft brown wool, small legs. And they also have a biofluorescent wool, that is, it shines in the dark with a luxurious bluish light, if the ultraviolet is exposed to the sun. Why do they need it - it is not known whether they know that they can do that - doubtful, but it is. The platypus has a small round head with a flat beak, but the beak is soft and leathery, from the hard only beak frame there.

The teeth of the plaintos, they are shimking with their beak, like grandmas, but there are horn plates for grabbing and some semblance of chewing. In general, small plaintos have teeth, but in adults they disappear again, some kind of nonsense. And they, like birds in goiter, put off food for their cheeks in bags. These guys have very cunning paws. On the front paws, the membranes are given forward when you need to swim, but if you need to stomp on the ground or dig, then the membranes fold, and the claws of such a transformer are given forward.

By the way, the front paws are used for swimming, and the rear and tail are used as a steering wheel and a stabilizer. In short, and here it looks little like mammals, even a sweatshirt on land is more like a gait of a lizard. With sensory organs even cooler. There is no nose, there are holes on the beak. When the platypus dives into the water, then the valves of the nostrils, eyes and ears are closed.

It would seem that he is swimming at random, but these animals have telepathy electropathy, with which the platypus can recognize the slightest fluctuations in electric fields. He floats, shakes his head around, catches a signal and grabs some kind of cancer with his beak. And under the beak of the plaintos, there are special musky glands. Placinos can also steer with their metabolism.

For example, if it is in cold water, then the metabolism can accelerate several times so that the body temperature does not fall, and if there is heat around, then the metabolism, on the contrary, slows down to maintain a 32 -degree temperature of a body comfortable for the animal. Oh, and also the plaintos are poisonous. Well, not entirely, but they have spurs on their hind legs, through which the animal can inject a powerful poison cocktail into the attacker.

All plaintors have spurs at birth, but only males continue to wear them with age, growing them up to 1. They need them mainly for marriage games, but they are also suitable for protection. The poison of the platypus can kill the dog, for example, or someone else is not very large. If the platypus bakes a person with his spur, it will hurt, the limb gets over, and the place of poison hit can even hurt up to several months!

The genitals of the plaintos are also not like people different from ordinary mammals. So in males the testiculas are hidden inside the body next to the kidneys, and the penis is bifurcated and this is normal for single and marsupials, but still I will not look for pictures and I will not, do not ask. In females, the ovaries are generally similar to birds, and the eggs produces the left, while the right does not function and does not develop stably, it will be at all in the process of evolution.

Well, after everyone else, the plaintos - 10 sex chromosomes with you and I have two, and the gene that determines the floor does not have at all. The platypes live only next to fresh and necessarily clean ponds. They live in a comfortable one-room hole on the shore, by the way, Nora always has two exits: one secretive output under water, the second is also secretive somewhere in the roots or thickets.

In general, there is especially no one to be afraid of him, but sometimes some varan or python can eat a plastic car, he is not interesting to the rest. The platypus walks and eats only at night who recognized himself - raise your hand. Under the water, the plaintos get any underwater trifle for themselves: crustaceans, worms, larvae, algae, snails, frogs and small fish.While he is “on the hunt”, the platypus fills his cheeks with prey, and then pops up and slowly grinds everything that he scored with his beak with horny growths.

So he spends half a day, because it is necessary to eat a placonos in a day somewhere a pound of food to maintain the performance of a fluffy body. And all because the plaintos have no stomach, so everything that they eat simply passes through the esophagus in the intestines, where everything useful is sucked out of food. The rest of the time, hours, the platypus is sleeping in its mink.

The platypes live for about 10 years, and every year they multiply. First, the plasticos for a week hibernate in late July - early August, and immediately after the hibernation the wedding period begins. The male grabs the female by the tail, and they begin to cut circles in the water, when someone's head will spin after that, they begin to mate. Until November, the male manages to fertilize several females, but does not accept his children in the future fate.

The female is involved in leaving offspring in full. She digs a hole, builds a nest of branches and foliage inside, and then puts it in a hole up to three eggs yes, very in the style of reptiles or birds, but not mammals that have been damn about the eggs of some lizards: leathery, round, small. The female covers the eggs with a sticky slurry, which glues eggs in a lump for thermoregulation, can be for maintaining humidity, or maybe so that they do not roll out along the nest.

The female hatches the eggs a little more than a week, after which small, naked and blind ducklings hatch from them. They break through the shell with an egg tooth this is such a hard ledge on the beak, which immediately falls off. Mommy takes small to her stomach and feeds them with milk. But the plaintos have no nipples. Milk stands out through the pores, like sweat, and young animals simply licks it from the wool.

By the way, the milking milk is insanely nutritious and antibacterial, they even think to take it as a basis, to create antibiotics. After 4 months, the platypes go out into the will and begin to feed on their own. The platypes are not social and far from flocks that prefer to live alone. After achieving the independence of the brood, the mother unequivocally hints to her dity that they should look for an apartment and drives them out of the hole, and more independent leaves themselves.

The platypes are very complex creatures. And they are very tender and shy. They are almost impossible to breed in captivity, but even in the wild they can be confused by too noisy and ubiquitous neighbors. So for the plaintos even arranged several reserves so that they grow there calm and fat.

No, not in order to eat them, although they used to hunt for them for the sake of fur skins, but now it is already prohibited. And on this I round, perhaps. As always, I hope you were interested in reading this text, and you learned something new for yourself. If so, then I do not in vain do all this, and your gratitude is the best reward for labor. Thank you all, everyone is free!

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