🔬 Animal Research Sheet
Platypus
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📖 Read about me
The platypus is one of only a few mammals that lay eggs. Males carry venomous spurs, it hunts with its eyes shut by sensing the electric fields of its prey through 40,000 receptors in its bill, it has no stomach, mothers sweat milk through their skin, and its fur glows blue-green under UV light.
🌍 Where do I live? (my habitat)
⚡ What is my superpower?
🤯 One weird TRUE fact I learned
🔎 How do scientists KNOW this?
(Hint: look for clues in the facts — did they film it, measure it, or test it?)
✏️ Draw me!
❓ One question I still have
Wild Zoo Facts · https://wildzoofacts.com/animals/platypus-glow/ — read the full facts, watch the video, and check your answers.