Despite naturecrazies and outback animal-wrastlers, this queer animal doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It would go find more if it could but it’s too busy a swimmin’ and a scroungin’ for some grub.  This is where Zomgee comes in, we raise our (non-alchoholic) Fosters to you, Mr. Platypus. At this point you’re probably simply dumbfounded at this thing so lets break it down: it’s mammal, otter body and feet along with its beaver tail. Okay so far so good but where in the world does this beak/bill thing come from, whoa curve ball. Not to mention it lays external eggs, equipped! Also, the word on the street says they’ve got this spur thing near their hind feet that totally packs the only venom any mammal has today.

This is rather unruley, I mean, what gives.  This seems like something crazy commin’ out of Spore. Apparently this is the only surviving mammal of its family/genus so these things apparently wern’t as sparse as they once were. Even after all that they keep they’re eyes closed in water, too timid for debris so they use their enhanced sense of feeling using bill-mode by swiping it across the body of water’s floor. Despite their eccentric exterior, they’re fierce and rather offensive, especially to their own kind during mating season to fend off cheapskate or lowlife platypi guys, (i know one, he owes me 20 Australian dollars, the jerk).

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