I`m sure you`re not a stranger to the bill. It`s an ugly and ugly, and it`s another animal`s business card in Australia.
As a result, a recent study revealed a very painful truth: its number has been declining for the past 200 years.
They may be endangered in the future.
It is very heartache to hear the little bit of this message: this kind of magic creature, how can we go far away from us?
The biological world can only be such a wonderful celiac male belly black creature.
It`s strange to say, starting with the discovery of this thing.
One day 221 years ago, the British Museum received a strange gift.
The gift was given by, John Hunter., governor of New South Wales, Australia.
(1737-1821)
This gift is nothing else, it is a specimen of a strange animal.
It looks like a beaver and looks like a duck.
It is no surprise that European naturalists saw such monsters because there were many adventurers who pieced together false specimens and cheated money from museums.
As the then British Museum assistant, George Shaw, picked up the scissors and was planning to break through the false piece of pieces.
He was surprised that there was no thread, and there was no trace of a stitch...
This rubber head, unexpectedly, is really a real species, who wants it?
Of course, the most important thing at this time is to name the new creature!
This is one of the things all naturalists and scientists want to do in their lifetime.
It`s this thing again, which makes it difficult for George Shaw.
What`s your name? This product is so like a duck that it is called platypus Platypus. (taken from a Greek word π λ α tau? π ≤ v?: the Latin translation word platupous), of the wide foot girl, the name Platypus has already been used.
In the end, George Shaw can only name it after Ornithorthynchus.
Platypus, on the other hand, has become the nickname of platypus, which is commonly called it.
In 1798, however, it was not known that the duck mouth was such a lonely existence.
There are human beings in the world, but there are black, white, yellow, Fujian, Inner Mongolia.
There are sheep in the world, but sheep have sheep, yellow sheep and rock sheep.
Snakes have cobra, rattlesnake, white eyebrow snake, bamboo leaf green.
But the world`s platypus, there`s only one!
Platypus, only such a poor baby as platypus.
Moreover, there are only five species of egg-laying mammals in the world, one of which is platypus.
Really a person to hold an umbrella, a person to wipe tears, a person is tired.
It`s such a magical creature that is much older than the vast majority of the animals we know today.
Pre-humans appeared, about 7.2 million years ago. And platypus appeared, at least 25 million years ago. So to really talk about generations, human beings still have to call this stuttering and ancient species a master.
It is such a magical and ancient creature, the distribution is also particularly exclusive. It was the prehistoric fairy beast who had been carrying it for 25 million years, but it was a princess disease in the absolute sense of the living environment.
Artificial breeding of platypus has not been very successful, only a very small number of young can survive, wherever they move, they are not adapted to...
In 1943, Victoria Healesville Reserve, abandoned the power of nine cattle and two tigers, and finally artificially bred a platypus.
But until now, the platypus hasn`t been able to breed outside Australia...
In other words: Do you want to see the platypus? I`m sorry, Master. I`m afraid! I can only come to Australia!
When it comes to platypus, the strangest place is how it propagates.
As an animal that needs to be breast-fed, it is spawning, not foetal.
And this kind of animal, which is the size of a duck, has a baby, which is only the size of peanuts.
Yes, you are not wrong. The egg of a platypus is only 1: 2.5 cm in diameter, which is smaller than the human thumb.
But it still depends on drinking mother`s milk to grow up.
Pregnant females dig deep into the cave where they used to live and use leaves to make an incubator in the depths of the cave.
Each time a female, a female, only produces three "Semen Arachidis Hypoga@@", after which it takes 14 days to hatch his little "Semen Arachidis Hypoga@@"...
Although it is a mammal, the female duck is not a breast.
When the cub comes out of the shell, the female platypus will lie flat and let the milk flow into the middle of her stomach.
And wait for your baby to drink Grandma on your belly.
Four months later, when the small peanuts grow up and grow into the animal, they will start their own lonely journey...
Many people want to ask, ah, such a loving platypus, is the family relationship extremely close ah?
Big mistake!
Mother platypus, they all pulled their children up.
Dig your own hole, build your own house, give birth to your own children, and raise your own children. There`s nothing wrong with platypus dad.
Feel this population, the male platypus, but provide the life of the XX, the whole population of platypus breeding, no other contribution...
And this guy is especially dark.
Male platypus, one of the few poisonous mammals that exists. On their back feet, there`s a stinger.
And the poison he has is not to protect his child`s wife at all.
According to the study, male platypus produces a large amount of toxin only during breeding season.
It`s very hard to rob a wife, but they do not have any desire to take care of his wife...
This is the real slut man!
Apart from the breeding season, males and females do not care about each other at all. They each live their own lonely lives, just like all human beings who live alone today.
If they are alone, they are a team.
When they were hungry, they waved their tails and looked for shrimp bugs in the pond.
When they are full, they swim out of the water and walk on land.
These lone rangers, like weapons that protect themselves, protect the soles of their feet.
When in the water, they mainly rely on their own front claws to row water, and when walking on land, it always likes to fold up its front claws, walk with its ankles, and protect the flippers on which it swims.
After all... I can eat too much... very hard!
The duck-mouth is a real-time food, like a solitary animal, an animal and a solitary house, except for eating, as if there is nothing else to worry about.
According to statistics, every duck-mouth animal needs to eat up to 20% of its weight.
It takes 13 hours a day to eat, and it`s over 800 times...
The platypus is simply the animal kingdom`s Su-ho!
"I`m busy laughing all my life." Is there anyone else? No, no.
It is, however, a solitary creature that is alone in the monsoon of the South Pacific, and, in the most recent, has been subjected to great threat.
Professor Richard Kingsford, from the University of New South Wales, said that over the past four years, they have been focusing on the living conditions of the duckbill.
In many parts of Australia, platypuses have become extinct.
Thousands of platypus tracks once existed in the rivers of Queensland.
Today, however, it is difficult for researchers to find them again in this area.
Their disappearance is mainly due to human beings.
Platypus, as an indisputable foodie, does have some natural enemies, such as snakes, water rats, lizards, eagles and so on.
But it`s hard for their populations to cause threat, after all, the hunters have more and better options to eat...
Because the place of life is fixed, the fur is warm, these platypus animals are finally targeted by human beings-it is good to make things with the skin of this ugly thing.
So at the beginning of the 20th century, the hunting duck was a wave of the hunters.
Especially in World War I, this easily captured little creature, once become a strategic material-with the Turkish fight, have to bear the cold!
Historians, at this time, did biologists a favor, and they found the record of a fur businessman.
It`s just a businessman who sold 29,000 duck-mouth skins!
At the Australian Museum, a blanket made of 48 platypus fur.
How many platypus beaks have died because of human relationship, the researchers say, is really difficult to estimate.
But one thing is for sure: humans are the main reason for the decline in platypus populations.
Moreover, in order to get the whole fur, the way to kill platypus is very cruel.
Instead of being killed directly by shoot, platypus may just be knocked out or corona, and then start peeling.
By now, human beings are continuing the existence of the species.
To protect water for agriculture, many rivers and ponds are drained or dammed.
But as previously said, platypus is a creature that requires a very high living environment.
If the water is too deep or too shallow, the food population they need may not be present.
Platypus is an animal that lacks the ability to migrate long distances.
A pond geological water quality environment of change, may cause a group of platypus to disappear.
The past Murray-Darling Basins, as a result of the lack of water, has led to the death of countless ducks...
Similar environmental issues are being staged throughout Australia.
The platypus may gradually become endangered.
More than 200 years ago, when people saw the creature in museums, it looked like an alien who never existed.
I hope that in the future, people can only see it in the museum.
Platypus file
Life expectancy: you can live over 17 years of age in captivity.
Skills: excellent swimming
Body temperature: 32 degrees
Diving: usually lasting for 30 seconds
Sleep: Sleep for an average of 14 hours a day in short, straight caves on the banks.
Natural enemies: snakes, lizards, eagles, crocodiles, etc.
Food: meat, link animal worms, insect larvae, shrimp
Dispel rumors: by the way, a lot of people say I starred in "where are the Wonder Animals", the director did not give the appearance fee ah? I`m kidding. Sniffing is my blood, but it`s more like a echidna.
Where are the Wonder Animals?
the place of the duck`s mouth
1. Now if you want to watch wild platypus in Victoria, you can squat on Great Otway National Park`s Lake Elizabeth on Ocean Road.
2. Snow River National Park and Alphine National Park, also have signs of wild platypus.
But some tourists say: it really takes a little patience to wait until the platypus. I don`t know where they are. Sometimes I wait for them to come out of the water to breathe, but they don`t seem to have to breathe!
However, according to the data, platypus is not very suffocating, about every 30 seconds need to breathe.
So if you`re lucky, you might see something like this.
such
Bad luck, most probably just leave a bubble for you.
3, if you don`t want to empty, want to see this magical creature with your own eyes, downtown Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne east of Healesville Sanctuary, can find it Oh!
（Melbourne Zoo）
（Healesville Sanctuary）
