Platypus Scavenger Hunt

Click on the link below to answer the question about the Platypus.

1. What is unique about the Platypus’s body covering?

http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/aust/plat/

2. How does the Platypus find its food underwater?

http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/aust/plat/

3. How does a male Platypus deliver its poison to its enemies?

http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/aust/plat/

4. How many hairs per square millimeters does the Platypus have?

http://rainforest-australia.com/platypus.htm

5. What is the Platypus’s most distinctive characteristic?

http://nature.ca/notebooks/english/platypus.htm

6. At what time is the Platypus active?

http://lamington.nrsm.uq.edu.au/docs/Anim/platypus.htm

7. How much food does a Platypus eat in one feeding?

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/monotremata/ornithorhynchidae.html

8.Why does the Platypus use its flat tail?

http://rainforest-australia.com/platypus.htm

9. Is the Platypus’s bill like a bird?

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/monotremata/ornithorhynchidae.html

10. Where are its nostrils located?

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/monotremata/ornithorhynchidae.html