ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR: PLATYPUS

Platypus is an egg-laying mammal or called as monotreme

together with Echidna. It is also has binomial name: Ornithorhynchus
anatnus. It has a flat tail that covered with dense, brown fur that
traps a layer of insulationg air to keep the animal (the platypus) warm.
The fur is also waterproofed, thick, and furry. However, their tail is
also has a thick and furry surface and different from those like in
beavers tail. It also has short legs with webbed feed, well equipped to
hunt in the water and they also spend most of their time on lands.
Platypuss foot basically consist of 5 toes with sharp claws and
platypus has also been the emblem of the state of New South Wales,
Australia.
Platypus animal behavior is seen by many ways. They are a shy
and elusive creature. Somehow, they also hide during the day and
doing most of its searching for food in the evening or night. They
make about 100 dives a day to search for food. The other behavior is
the males often fight over the females in the mating season, using
their venomous spurs on rear legs as weapons. Platypuss live is
territorial and solitary, means that they do not live in social group.
Usually, the males are the one who involved in raising the young. And,
the most important behavior is they have been known to migrate
across paddocks and similar to land to reach new home waterways.
Platypuss habitat is in burrows that they dig on the banks of
freshwater creeks, river, lakes, and dombs. The female somehow digs
chamber at the end of a long burrow where she shelters the young.
They spend time searching for food in freshwater rivers and lakes
(semiaquatic). But, mainly, platypus lives in bushland as well as in
tropical, subtropical, and temperate rainforests.
The distribution of platypus in the world is mainly in Australia.
Australia is the only country to have platypus and it is also the origin
where platypus came from. Its available in some continent, as an
attraction or a wildlife animal in a zoo. They live throughout the
Eastern Coastal Australia and the state of Tasmania. Particularly with
heavily wooded and protected regions. They are found from the
cooler sub-alpine creeds in the south, such as the state of Victoria
and the Tasmanian highlands, north through New South Wales to
tropical for north Queensland. And, they do not live in New Zealand,
or anywhere else overseas, but, as I mention before, they available in
limited amount in some of zoos and regions through out the world.
CHRISTOPHER JASON H