![]() For example, you could say, 'It has a bill like a _.' Write a few sentences about how the platypus is like a mix of other animals. You could look at a duck, a freshwater turtle and a beaver. Circle the parts that are like another animal. 3.How is the platypus a 'mix' of different animals? Find a picture of a platypus.Look at what it has between its toes to help it swim. Which two body parts does it use to search among the rocks? The platypus has four feet. 2.Look at how the platypus searches for food.What are these parts? What does a platypus look like? 1.The platypus has body parts that make it very different from other animals.See what type of animal the platypus catches and feeds on by the water's edge. Watch a platypus clean itself and then swim under water to search for food. ![]() Listen as Don Spencer describes the features of a platypus. YEARS: F–2 Meet the platypus one of the world's most amazing creatures. I'd say the platypus is really enjoying that. Hmm, that makes a tasty change when your main diet is worms. Holding onto it with its claws, while it eats it. Can you see? It's caught a freshwater crayfish. And if there's nothing to eat on the bottom, then it'll come up to the top. And see how it uses its duck bill, pushing the rocks. Webbed feet, perfect for swimming, and long claws so it can dig, as well. It lives in freshwater streams and lakes and estuaries, and is constantly looking for food. See the big duck bill that it has? Then back into the water. Every now and again, the platypus will climb out of the water - start to groom itself, have a bit of a scratch. It lives in a hole in the ground, but it spends most of its time in the water. ![]() It's got webbed feet, so it swims like a fish. It's got a beak like a bird, but, of course, it isn't a bird. It's a sort of a mixture of lots of different animals. It's covered in fur, and it's called the platypus. This is one of the most amazing creatures in the whole world, and it's only found here in Australia. ![]()
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