Platypus duckbill

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Platypus duckbill

***** Location: Australia
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Explanation


カモノハシ 鴨の嘴 duckbill, duckmole, platypus



Platypus by Rod Scott
© Australian Geographic Journal Number 12, Oct-Nov 1988

Gr. platypous flat-footed platys flat + pous foot.
Originally the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 changed for Ornithorhynchus.
A small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme mammal (Ornithorhynchus anatinus, with webbed feet, a tail like a beaver's, and a horny beak resembling the bill of a duck: in full duckbill platypus. It inhabits rivers and their banks in eastern Australia and Tasmania.

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The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. It is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record.

Until the early 20th century, it was hunted for its fur, but it is now protected throughout its range.
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朝ぼらけ波紋が語るカモノハシ
asaborake hamon ga kataru kamonohashi

first light
the ripples remain a tale
of platypus

- Shared by Chie Chilli Umebayashi -
Joys of Japan, August 2012


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