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SKILLS AND SENSES 39
Large front feet are webbed
and work like paddles to
propel the platypus through
the water towards its prey.
The bill has 40,000
tiny organs, called
electroreceptors,
that sense electric
currents made
by prey.
What mammal has The platypus is one of
WARM EGGS
a duck-like bill? only two kinds of mammal,
along with the echidna,
that lay eggs. A female
platypus lays one or two
eggs in a burrow beneath
a river bank and uses
her body heat to warm
them until they hatch.
Here a scientist holds
two platypus eggs. When the platypus
is swimming, its
nostrils and ears close
to keep water out.
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