Do you know what an Ornithorhynchus anatinus is? Well, it's also a platypus. Platypuses are semiaquatic, egg-laying mammals that frequent lakes and streams in eastern Australia. It has a sensitive, flexible duck-shaped bill, webbed feet with venomous spurs, and thick fur. They live in Australia and are mammals. Platypuses are native to freshwater rivers and lakes in eastern Australia and Tasmania. They live in burrows created along freshwater lakes and rivers. They can lay one to three eggs. When they are born there they are no bigger than a jelly bean and have no hair. The mother does not take care of the children. Platypuses eat worms, insect larvae, freshwater shrimp and yabbies. Snakes, water rats, goannas, hawks, owls, and eagles are predators. Favorite food is shrimp. They are of three different colors, brown, gray, black. The platypus weighs on average about 5 kilos. It reaches a length of 4 to 5 inches. The speed is 35 km/h (22 mph). A platypus is covered in 3 layers of thick brown fur. It also has webbed feet, beak and tail like those of the beaver. They there...