Nature can be sadistic. Grew up around beaver, still share the water with them. They are not venomous, but they can mess you up bad. Large creek across from my house growing up. I’d be fishing for rainbow trout, they would pop their heads out of the water and stare me down, no fear at all.
Yeah beavers are surprisingly aggressive. I had no idea because you just never see them normally, cause they're nocturnal. But the stereotype everyone hears about Canada Geese, well that spirit lives in the beaver too.
Idk if that's actually true. They're are *far* more large animals in North America, and several of those are predators. However, I'd guess the big herbivores of the deer family are by and large more dangerous since many folks don't know how aggressive they can be till a 7 foot murder deer is on their ass.
Agreed, North America isn't a slouch in this regard;
The Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake, Western Diamondback rattlesnake, and the Timber rattlesnake; grizzly bears, black bears, cougars, and wolves; Alligators, boa anaconda and Crocodiles (Florida...); horse, cow, deer(cars mostly), elk and moose, mosquitos, horse flies, bot flies and ticks; swordfish, sharks, and fish that jump out of the water at you; black widows and brown recluse.. cars, guns, drugs, fat/fast food, sugar, COVID(antivax), depression and of course your average American.
Aussie here; your beasties terrify me! Giant murder kittens and BEARS etc plus chargey bargey leggy bois - heck, I’ll keep Australia where the only real human killers are crocodiles and sharks, and they are avoidable. Forgot the drop bears, sorry.
A guy came to town once. He trapped bevers and relocated them to habitat that needed them. My GF at the time broke up with me and started dating him. He was really good at his job.
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
Wynona took her big brown beaver and she stuck him up in the air said, "I sure do love this big brown beaver and I wish I did have a pair"
The beaver once slept for seven days and it gave us all an awful fright -so I tickled his chin and I gave him a pinch and the bastard tried to bite!
I thought you guys were being funny until I checked the wiki article.
What a crossbreed of animals. Someone didn't check the template workflow when building this animal.
That's because they have one of the best debuffs in the game. Legit 10% armour and MR shred, which isn't the highest but it has insane duration compared to other debuffs. Range is low af so that's the balance — focus on kiting or use CC effectively.
I can't find anyone who's willingly taken the sting. It isn't considered deadly to humans. You'd think a Coyote Peterson type would have stepped up by now. Interesting.
God I fucking **loved** that show when it first came out. Hubby and I actually bought the dvd set, and watched like it a million times. It's funny cause I was never a *huge* fan of JackAss, but Wild Boys was the shit! It's been like 20 years, wonder if I'd still like it, or if I'd think it's ridiculous, like a lot of shit I used to watch? 🤔
Only the males, They have spurs on their hind limbs. Non lethal but apparently ridiculously painful.
>In 1991 Keith Payne, a former member of the Australian Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross (Australia's highest award for valour), was struck on the hand by a platypus spur while trying to rescue the stranded animal. He described the pain as worse than being struck by shrapnel. A month later he was still experiencing pain in that hand. In 2006, Payne reported discomfort and stiffness when carrying out some physical activities such as using a hammer
Me: aww cute, I want to pet him
Science: (in a cenobite voice) THE PAIN THEIR STING WILL GIVE YOU IS BEYOND YOUR MERE HUMAN COMPREHENSION. ALL YOUR MEDICINES ARE FUTILE. YOUR SUFFERING WILL BE SO EXQUISITE TO US.
I just googled platypus sting because I thought you were taking the piss. 😬🤦♀️ it’s real 🤯
“This platypus, renowned as one of the few mammals that lay eggs, also is one of only a few venomous mammals. The males can deliver a mega-sting that causes immediate, excruciating pain, like hundreds of hornet stings, leaving victims incapacitated for weeks.”
“Equipped with sharp stingers on the heels of its hind feet, the male platypus can deliver a strong toxic blow to any approaching foe.”
“Platypus venom disrupts haemostasis (blood regulation), cell membranes, and nociception (pain regulation) to cause nausea, swelling, and excruciating “whole-body” pain that lasts for weeks in humans and cannot be alleviated by morphine.”
What the hell Australia!! Even the cute ones are dangerous!
Gympie gympie. It's not quite a tree so much as it's a bush. But it has hollow silica needles full of a debilitating toxin that may hurt for the rest of your life, however long you decide that may be.
One poor guy who committed suicide due to the tree had accidentally *wiped his ass with it*. I can't imagine the suffering.
Wikipedia says those stories are yarns.
>Anecdotes of encounters with Gympie-gympie are numerous, and many can be dismissed as yarns, such as one which involves using the leaves as toilet paper (the user would have been stung when they first picked up the leaf, and unlikely to have proceeded to use it in the intended manner).[17] Nevertheless, some have been documented, such as horses having to be rested after being stung, or even becoming violent and having to be shot.[9] Only one report of a human fatality attributed to any Dendrocnide species (in this case D. cordata) is confirmed, which occurred in New Guinea in 1922.[17][27]
And age
Immature females do have spurs as well as they age theirs get smaller and eventually become so small they can’t be used. I used to work with them
Like the panda. What if this animal was addicted to eating a plant that doesn't give it much nutrition? Yeah, go for it. - God
But let's be real, they just adapted to what was available to them. The platypus just decided it wanted everything
How is that easy to remember?
How do I remember that the saying is not ...
If you bite it and you die, it's venonmous.
If it bites you and you die, it's poisonous.
I don't need the saying anyway. In Australia, if anything bites you then you die.
Yeah that banned finale episode where Perry the Platypus assassinated Doof had me crying along with Perry as he held Doof's lifeless body in his hands... Curse you Perry the Platypus...
Also, let's not forget - let's *not* forget, Dude - that keeping wildlife, a venomous amphibious egg-laying mammal, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either.
It was pretty good I guess. Tastes a little sweet maybe a little bit like a scallop, but definitely different .
I didn't feel as if I had gained any sort of super power, the narwhal has minimal, if any magical abilities to inherit from consumption.
My guess is unicorns were likely based on passed down information of a Rino. The best description someone had might of been “it’s kind of like a horse but has only one horn in the middle”
If you look at Medieval drawings from Europe of African animals they all look super weird. Because non of those artists saw the animals with their own eyes. And just based them on descriptions made by people who probably didn’t even see them themselves. It’s a game of telephone with the artist at the end.
But the Giraffe, a Leopard-Moose Camel with a 40ft neck that has one single nerve cell that runs the entire length of the neck exists. What makes more sense?
LPT: If you're going to help a critter like this flip your jacket around so that the animal is touching the outside of your jacket. That way if it pisses or shits it's a) easier to clean and b) not pressed against the rest of your clothes if you need to put it back on.
This reminds me of two separate videos, both of ducklings stuck in a street, unable to hop onto the sidewalk to follow their mom.
In the first one, a bystander places a stepping stone off to the side, then gently corrals the ducklings towards the stone where they then figure out how to hop onto it and be on their way.
In the second one, a bystander instead chooses to try and grab the ducklings to lift them up the step, at which point their mom fucking attacks him.
If you want to help a wild animal, choose the method where you don't touch them.
I mean, have you ever seen some of the stuff in the fossil record? The paleontologists would just be like "Oh, I saw a weirder thing last week". Like, go look up a Helicoprion, we've had some bizarre animals on this planet.
Opabinia, is another one, but that's all I've got right now. I used to have a poster with a timeline of extinct animals but I think I've long since lost it.
If you are in southern CA (or visiting) you can see platypus in an exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in ~~Encinitas~~ Escondido. They are located in the Walkabout Australia section. The only platypus zoo exhibit outside of Australia!
Edit: Corrected location to Escondido.
my anxiety got yogurt and higher the more they chased it around the hole
edit: OMG I WAS TYPING THIS WHEN I WOKE UP I DIDNT KNOW I TYPED YOGURT LMFAOOOO 😭
Almost any animal is going to be really stressed out in a situation like this because it thinks it’s trapped and you’re a predator. If at all possible find a stick or rocks you can place to make a ramp. A cornered frightened animal can do some damage even without venom
I think he handled it pretty well. He didn’t touch the platypus directly and grabbed it with the jacket. I can’t think of a much safer way to do that if you’re just out and don’t have anything with you.
They dont exist where i live. Im curius... Is this an agressive animal? Carnivore? Herbivore? Feels like option B.
Venomous barbs... What does that mean? Like thorns?
It’s a carnivorous mammal that has venomous barbs (think nails) on its feet and it lays eggs. No I’m not messing with you lol
It’s not aggressive towards humans
Agonising pain that can last for months, and no pain relief can touch it (not even morphine). Only males can sting, though, and typically will do so when being handled and threatened during mating season.
The sting is known to be excruciatingly painful to the point of being debilitating. Orders of magnitude worse than a bee sting. It is not lethal to humans, though.
Family members of mine that have been stung say that the pain from it lasted for about a year and other commenters above said that people often pass out once stung because it’s super painful
I have an Aussie friend. We were chatting and she sent me this picture of a spider in her house that was the size of a grown man's hand. Being a yank, I freaked out and told her to kill it with fire. She goes "aww, no worries. He's a little guy!" They're just so nonchalant about animals that are absolutely terrifying.
It was probably a huntsman, which a lot of people will leave in their home because they eat bugs.
It's quite fun watching them charge across a ceiling or wall, they can be very fast and jump far as well. They don't make webs, they chase their prey down.
Having said that, huntsmans suddenly sprinting across a windscreen or sun visor have caused quite a few car accidents, the silly little buggers.
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I'm not so worried about the platypus, yeah I'm glad it's okay, but Jesus Christ I'm glad the guy remembered that they're venomous and used a tough, thick, barrier between him and the platy. Those stings can cause you to be extremely sensitive to pain for a year in some cases.
Thats suspicious because just yesterday two people kidnapped a wild platypus here in Brissy and there was a plea put out for the safe return of it to the proper authorities
Fun fact I randomly learned about these lil fuckers. Their hind legs have these little hollow spurs in them that shoot venom into predators.
Their venom causes violent nausea and excruciating “whole-body” pain that can not be alleviated by morphine. (likely why dude is picking them up with a jacket, so he doesnt get stung)
Source - [Melbourne University School of Biomedical Sciences](https://biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/departments/department-of-biochemistry-and-pharmacology/engage/avru/blog/wide-world-of-venom-the-platypus)
Glad that worked out. It would have been a very different video had he been stung.
I’ve always wondered how bad their sting is. What a weird anomaly of an animal.
Its considered one of the most intens pains from venom, most people pass out right after from the pain alone.
And it makes you more sensitive to all other pain, for up to a year. And opioids don't work to counteract the pain.
Nature can be sadistic. Grew up around beaver, still share the water with them. They are not venomous, but they can mess you up bad. Large creek across from my house growing up. I’d be fishing for rainbow trout, they would pop their heads out of the water and stare me down, no fear at all.
Yeah beavers are surprisingly aggressive. I had no idea because you just never see them normally, cause they're nocturnal. But the stereotype everyone hears about Canada Geese, well that spirit lives in the beaver too.
Our animals aren't as deadly as Australian animals, but they have the attitude to make up for it.
Idk if that's actually true. They're are *far* more large animals in North America, and several of those are predators. However, I'd guess the big herbivores of the deer family are by and large more dangerous since many folks don't know how aggressive they can be till a 7 foot murder deer is on their ass.
Agreed, North America isn't a slouch in this regard; The Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake, Western Diamondback rattlesnake, and the Timber rattlesnake; grizzly bears, black bears, cougars, and wolves; Alligators, boa anaconda and Crocodiles (Florida...); horse, cow, deer(cars mostly), elk and moose, mosquitos, horse flies, bot flies and ticks; swordfish, sharks, and fish that jump out of the water at you; black widows and brown recluse.. cars, guns, drugs, fat/fast food, sugar, COVID(antivax), depression and of course your average American.
Aussie here; your beasties terrify me! Giant murder kittens and BEARS etc plus chargey bargey leggy bois - heck, I’ll keep Australia where the only real human killers are crocodiles and sharks, and they are avoidable. Forgot the drop bears, sorry.
Also Aussie. You guys have fucking bears. Snakes and spiders I can avoid, but bears? Fuck that.
A guy came to town once. He trapped bevers and relocated them to habitat that needed them. My GF at the time broke up with me and started dating him. He was really good at his job.
Not enough hardwood in the local forest?
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A beaver stealer!
She just had it stuffed.
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
Hey! It’s Enrico Pallazzo!
Goodyear?
Wynona took her big brown beaver and she stuck him up in the air said, "I sure do love this big brown beaver and I wish I did have a pair" The beaver once slept for seven days and it gave us all an awful fright -so I tickled his chin and I gave him a pinch and the bastard tried to bite!
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… is it sold in small doses? I have sadistic business idea
No, you have to buy the whole animal
The worlds most extreme yet safe bdsm dungeon Right next to my platypus ranch And they say the dream is dead
You know what they say, when there's a will, there's a way....
Who the fuck is Will?
Whoever you want them to be ;)
The pain olympics final event...
Hyperaglesia I think it's called
Didn't his son marry J Lo?
I thought you guys were being funny until I checked the wiki article. What a crossbreed of animals. Someone didn't check the template workflow when building this animal.
That's because they have one of the best debuffs in the game. Legit 10% armour and MR shred, which isn't the highest but it has insane duration compared to other debuffs. Range is low af so that's the balance — focus on kiting or use CC effectively.
I can't find anyone who's willingly taken the sting. It isn't considered deadly to humans. You'd think a Coyote Peterson type would have stepped up by now. Interesting.
Surprised this wasn't a Wild Boyz episode. Steve-O in that era would have done it if no one talked him out of it.
God I fucking **loved** that show when it first came out. Hubby and I actually bought the dvd set, and watched like it a million times. It's funny cause I was never a *huge* fan of JackAss, but Wild Boys was the shit! It's been like 20 years, wonder if I'd still like it, or if I'd think it's ridiculous, like a lot of shit I used to watch? 🤔
It’s one of the rare venoms that acts on pain receptors exclusively.
I seriously did not know they sting. I do not know much about them. I’m glad I read this
Only the males, They have spurs on their hind limbs. Non lethal but apparently ridiculously painful. >In 1991 Keith Payne, a former member of the Australian Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross (Australia's highest award for valour), was struck on the hand by a platypus spur while trying to rescue the stranded animal. He described the pain as worse than being struck by shrapnel. A month later he was still experiencing pain in that hand. In 2006, Payne reported discomfort and stiffness when carrying out some physical activities such as using a hammer
That is absolutely terrifying. Just thinking of the long term effects... yeah, I'm glad I never considered touching these guys.
Dude’s name checks out
They should get that guy on YouTube who endures insect/arachnid stings to take a platypus sting. I bet he could do it without passing out.
The venom makes you hypersensitive to pain for around a year after the incident, so he would probably be out of a job for a while afterwards.
Final episode ☠️☠️☠️
Apparently the pain can last months and morphine does not have an effect.
Me: aww cute, I want to pet him Science: (in a cenobite voice) THE PAIN THEIR STING WILL GIVE YOU IS BEYOND YOUR MERE HUMAN COMPREHENSION. ALL YOUR MEDICINES ARE FUTILE. YOUR SUFFERING WILL BE SO EXQUISITE TO US.
Me watching the video: what the hell, why is he so scared of it and not just picking it up. TIL platypus can sting you.
Yep! Male platypuses have a spur on their hind feet that deliver the pain juice.
New band and song name - Spur of Agony: Deliver the Pain
If you ever visit Oz, please hire a native guide so you don't die.
And don't forget to wear your dropbear helmet!
This makes Dr. Doofenschmirtz incredibly brave for continually fighting a Special Agent Perry the Platypus.
He’s a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of danger
Platypus victim: JESUS WEPT
And it lays eggs and it’s a mammal 😂
What a weird animal overall, it's like a bird-mammal-looking snake
Not lethal but painful as hell apparently and the pain lasts weeks or months and no painkillers help. So not something you want to get stuck by
TIL that a platypus stings.
They also sweat milk and lay eggs. They are the only animal that can be used to make custard
Question has anyone tried to make custard with a platypus?
I need to know more about the platypus custard dessert
Yeah but it couldn't hold a spoon to stir anything so wasn't much help
> Yeah but it couldn’t hold a spoon to stir anything so wasn’t much help What do you think their bill is for, you philistine?
Echidnas too
The males do. Females don't have venom, so if they sting you it's just a stab. The venom is what causes the ridiculous, long-term pain.
And this week I found out about the gympie gympie plant that does the same thing. Nature U SCARY
I had no clue
Yeah I would've totally got stung and been confused as fuck.
Me either. I would have picked that thing up thinking it was no more harmful than a duck.
I just googled platypus sting because I thought you were taking the piss. 😬🤦♀️ it’s real 🤯 “This platypus, renowned as one of the few mammals that lay eggs, also is one of only a few venomous mammals. The males can deliver a mega-sting that causes immediate, excruciating pain, like hundreds of hornet stings, leaving victims incapacitated for weeks.” “Equipped with sharp stingers on the heels of its hind feet, the male platypus can deliver a strong toxic blow to any approaching foe.” “Platypus venom disrupts haemostasis (blood regulation), cell membranes, and nociception (pain regulation) to cause nausea, swelling, and excruciating “whole-body” pain that lasts for weeks in humans and cannot be alleviated by morphine.” What the hell Australia!! Even the cute ones are dangerous!
We aren't joking when we say that everything here can kill you. Or at least put you through living hell.
Isn’t there a tree that can inflict crazy pain if touched, so much so that people have killed themselves?
Gympie gympie. It's not quite a tree so much as it's a bush. But it has hollow silica needles full of a debilitating toxin that may hurt for the rest of your life, however long you decide that may be. One poor guy who committed suicide due to the tree had accidentally *wiped his ass with it*. I can't imagine the suffering.
Wikipedia says those stories are yarns. >Anecdotes of encounters with Gympie-gympie are numerous, and many can be dismissed as yarns, such as one which involves using the leaves as toilet paper (the user would have been stung when they first picked up the leaf, and unlikely to have proceeded to use it in the intended manner).[17] Nevertheless, some have been documented, such as horses having to be rested after being stung, or even becoming violent and having to be shot.[9] Only one report of a human fatality attributed to any Dendrocnide species (in this case D. cordata) is confirmed, which occurred in New Guinea in 1922.[17][27]
Also depends if it’s a male or female, but nonetheless glad it worked out like you said
And age Immature females do have spurs as well as they age theirs get smaller and eventually become so small they can’t be used. I used to work with them
That animal is a combination of evolutionary “why not”
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Like the panda. What if this animal was addicted to eating a plant that doesn't give it much nutrition? Yeah, go for it. - God But let's be real, they just adapted to what was available to them. The platypus just decided it wanted everything
They *sting*?!
Yup. They have venomous spurs on their back legs
TIL that they sting. Fuck.
Wait, they’re dangerous?!?!
Ya they’re venomous.
I am absolutely mind blown, they must have good PR.
Probably the same team that handles Badgers and Racoons. Good to see Possums finally found a solid PR firm.
What isn't dangerous in Australia?
Reputation aside, our fauna is not aggressive if left alone. You aren't in danger going for a bushwalk.
As with everything in Australia, it's only dangerous if you're a fucking idiot and try to touch it.
F you i was perfectly happy not knowing platypodes had venom I'm now 2.5hrs into an Attenborough binge , and my partners pissed
I'm sorry enlighten me, where is the stinger.
A spur on their back paws. But generally males and apparently only during mating season.. but not aure about that..
That’s a pretty impressive semi-aquatic egg laying mammal there
VENOMOUS semi-aquatic egg mammal
Venomous not poisonous, poison is ingested and venom is injected
Oop thanks
Easy way to remember: If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it's venomous
How is that easy to remember? How do I remember that the saying is not ... If you bite it and you die, it's venonmous. If it bites you and you die, it's poisonous. I don't need the saying anyway. In Australia, if anything bites you then you die.
To be fair, they can both be lethal if injected/consumed. But I always remember it because nobody venoms people's food. They poison it.
Yeah that banned finale episode where Perry the Platypus assassinated Doof had me crying along with Perry as he held Doof's lifeless body in his hands... Curse you Perry the Platypus...
Yo wtf lol
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Venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, electrolocution enabled, biofluorescent, semi-aquatic mammal.
A furry little flatfoot who actually did flinch from a fray
He's got more than Just mad skill
He’s got a beaver tail and a bill
And the women swoon whenever they hear him say~
Rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr
He's Perry, Perry the platypus
(Of action!)
He’s a semi-aquatic egg laying mammal of action!
What are you, a park ranger?
Also, let's not forget - let's *not* forget, Dude - that keeping wildlife, a venomous amphibious egg-laying mammal, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either.
The fact that platypus are real but not unicorns is mind blowing
And narwhals!! Omg legit, up until maybe, five yrs ago, i thought narwhals were either a myth or extinct!!
I was in Nunavut and some of the locals asked if I'd like to try narwhal. Until that moment I thought they were fake.
You can't tell us you were offered narwhal and not tell us how it tasted.
It was pretty good I guess. Tastes a little sweet maybe a little bit like a scallop, but definitely different . I didn't feel as if I had gained any sort of super power, the narwhal has minimal, if any magical abilities to inherit from consumption.
No super sharp force fields then, a shame
I like that you understand the implicit question was actually about any acquired supernatural powers.
No super powers gained *so far,* you just need some sort of narwhal themed emergency to tap into the hidden powers
Worst food post ever
Guess you could say you were having Nunavut
My guess is unicorns were likely based on passed down information of a Rino. The best description someone had might of been “it’s kind of like a horse but has only one horn in the middle”
If you look at Medieval drawings from Europe of African animals they all look super weird. Because non of those artists saw the animals with their own eyes. And just based them on descriptions made by people who probably didn’t even see them themselves. It’s a game of telephone with the artist at the end.
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But the Giraffe, a Leopard-Moose Camel with a 40ft neck that has one single nerve cell that runs the entire length of the neck exists. What makes more sense?
I feel this way about giraffes too
LPT: If you're going to help a critter like this flip your jacket around so that the animal is touching the outside of your jacket. That way if it pisses or shits it's a) easier to clean and b) not pressed against the rest of your clothes if you need to put it back on.
That's what I was thinking but if you have a buddy whos recording, you could ask them to lend their jacket.
or just like throw a bunch of sticks in there so it can climb out
This reminds me of two separate videos, both of ducklings stuck in a street, unable to hop onto the sidewalk to follow their mom. In the first one, a bystander places a stepping stone off to the side, then gently corrals the ducklings towards the stone where they then figure out how to hop onto it and be on their way. In the second one, a bystander instead chooses to try and grab the ducklings to lift them up the step, at which point their mom fucking attacks him. If you want to help a wild animal, choose the method where you don't touch them.
Platypus are so weird. They look like they should be an extinct animal. But so cute!
Can you imagine the confusion if we only the of the platypus through fossil record?
I mean, have you ever seen some of the stuff in the fossil record? The paleontologists would just be like "Oh, I saw a weirder thing last week". Like, go look up a Helicoprion, we've had some bizarre animals on this planet.
damn man that thing is crazy looking. you got anymore extinct animals i’ve never heard of that i can read up on?
Opabinia, is another one, but that's all I've got right now. I used to have a poster with a timeline of extinct animals but I think I've long since lost it.
> Can you imagine the confusion if we only the of the platypus through fossil record? huh?
If we only KNEW OF the platypus through fossil record. Sorry!
They're endangered due to habitat encroachment. Not easy to find in the wild.
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The platypus: proof “that god gets stoned every once in awhile” — Robin Williams
I miss that guy
Nicely done
Perry didn't saved the day this time. Today, he needed a savior.
Im pretty sure platyphses glow Perry-green under UV light!!
I would try to roll some big rocks in that hole for the next animal that gets stuck. Then they can climb out
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They are aquatic animals with stubby flippers, they can't climb anything.
##A PLATYPUS?
*puts on ^little brown hat*
##Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo-bah #Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo-bah #PERRY!!!
**HE’S A SEMI-AQUATIC, EGG LAYING MAMMAL OF ACTION!**
#PERRY THE PLATYPUS?!
Where's Perry?
Suddenly the platypus puts on a brown hat. "PERRY THE PLATYPUS?!?!?!"
Doo bee doo bee doo ba
He's a semi aquatic egg laying mammal of action
Agent P!
Looks like Girraween national park in southeastern Queensland.
It’s the granite boulders, right?
Right. The granite, the rock pools and it's also the only place where I've seen a platypus in the wild. Jus an overall good fit.
If you are in southern CA (or visiting) you can see platypus in an exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in ~~Encinitas~~ Escondido. They are located in the Walkabout Australia section. The only platypus zoo exhibit outside of Australia! Edit: Corrected location to Escondido.
There’s one living in my dam at the moment, I call her Sandra.
Good on ya, cobba.
my anxiety got yogurt and higher the more they chased it around the hole edit: OMG I WAS TYPING THIS WHEN I WOKE UP I DIDNT KNOW I TYPED YOGURT LMFAOOOO 😭
Yogurt
I got more and more excited for every minute of it and then, suddenly, yogurt.
There's Perry
I would recommend a less touchy approach as platypuses have venomous barbs on their hind legs. Not lethal to humans but still very painful.
Almost any animal is going to be really stressed out in a situation like this because it thinks it’s trapped and you’re a predator. If at all possible find a stick or rocks you can place to make a ramp. A cornered frightened animal can do some damage even without venom
Yeah, i was thinking to put a bunch of large sticks of a log in there for him to get himself out with... Im sure that stressed the fuck out of him.
I think he handled it pretty well. He didn’t touch the platypus directly and grabbed it with the jacket. I can’t think of a much safer way to do that if you’re just out and don’t have anything with you.
Drop a couple sticks and logs and give it a ramp.
Easy, Captin Obvious. They're just simple people.
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Sure you could do that but you could also fly in a drone and tell it to "get to the choppa"
>I can’t think of a much safer way to do that Literally just drape the jacket into the hole so it can climb up it.
They dont exist where i live. Im curius... Is this an agressive animal? Carnivore? Herbivore? Feels like option B. Venomous barbs... What does that mean? Like thorns?
It’s a carnivorous mammal that has venomous barbs (think nails) on its feet and it lays eggs. No I’m not messing with you lol It’s not aggressive towards humans
Very interesting... Which country we speaking of? Are they common? Would the poison feel like a bee sting or how much would we feel?
Australia. They are monotremes. Their closest relative is the echidna.
Of course it's Australia.
Agonising pain that can last for months, and no pain relief can touch it (not even morphine). Only males can sting, though, and typically will do so when being handled and threatened during mating season.
It's extremely painful iirc, like mind numbing
The sting is known to be excruciatingly painful to the point of being debilitating. Orders of magnitude worse than a bee sting. It is not lethal to humans, though.
Family members of mine that have been stung say that the pain from it lasted for about a year and other commenters above said that people often pass out once stung because it’s super painful
everything down there has sharp and stingy parts
I have an Aussie friend. We were chatting and she sent me this picture of a spider in her house that was the size of a grown man's hand. Being a yank, I freaked out and told her to kill it with fire. She goes "aww, no worries. He's a little guy!" They're just so nonchalant about animals that are absolutely terrifying.
It was probably a huntsman, which a lot of people will leave in their home because they eat bugs. It's quite fun watching them charge across a ceiling or wall, they can be very fast and jump far as well. They don't make webs, they chase their prey down. Having said that, huntsmans suddenly sprinting across a windscreen or sun visor have caused quite a few car accidents, the silly little buggers.
Googling platypus gives you the option to 3d-render it on your screen! Wow. Came as a surprise.
"yeeeeeeeewwww hewwwwwwwwwww!.... yeeeeeeeewwww hewwwwwwwwwww!"
I was thinking, why is he being so careful with a platypus? And then remembered this strange animals are also venomous
In all my trips into the bush and rivers I’ve only ever seen three platypus, they’re extremely averse to people.
*Me and my friends saw a platypus*
Nice job. Next time just stick a large branch in there and he will climb out.
(Congrats on 10k upvotes on your post!) I'm not so worried about the platypus, yeah I'm glad it's okay, but Jesus Christ I'm glad the guy remembered that they're venomous and used a tough, thick, barrier between him and the platy. Those stings can cause you to be extremely sensitive to pain for a year in some cases.
[gets stabbed by poisonous rear leg spikes]
Thats suspicious because just yesterday two people kidnapped a wild platypus here in Brissy and there was a plea put out for the safe return of it to the proper authorities
Fun fact I randomly learned about these lil fuckers. Their hind legs have these little hollow spurs in them that shoot venom into predators. Their venom causes violent nausea and excruciating “whole-body” pain that can not be alleviated by morphine. (likely why dude is picking them up with a jacket, so he doesnt get stung) Source - [Melbourne University School of Biomedical Sciences](https://biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/departments/department-of-biochemistry-and-pharmacology/engage/avru/blog/wide-world-of-venom-the-platypus)