How to use in-sentence of “platypus”:
+ When on land, the platypus lives in burrows on the river banks.
+ The echidnas and Platypus are monotremes, the only mammals to lay eggs.
+ There are platypus on Kangaroo Island, but these were brought there in an attempt to save animals people thought might become extinct.
+ There is only one platypus that exists now, the duck-billed platypus.
+ The following joke from “Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar” illustrates the point: “An old cowboy goes into a bar and orders a drink.
+ There are very few if any platypus left in most the Murray-Darling Basin.
Example sentences of “platypus”:
+ David Fleay at the Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria had the first successful zoo-raised platypus in 1946.
+ The male platypus has spurs on the heels of its hind feet.
+ The platypus releases milk through ducts in its abdomen.
+ In the past, platypus lived in South Australia but they no longer do so.
+ The male platypus has a sharp spine on his two back ankleankles called “spurs” which contain a venom.
+ The platypus does not have nipples, but milk comes through small openings in the skin.
+ The platypus was first described in detail in the early 19th century, but it took a while before biologists in England believed what they were reading.
+ At Eungella National Park in Queensland, there are spots on the river with viewing areas where wild platypus can usually be seen each evening.
+ It is strange that the platypus does not live in some healthy rivers.
+ The only other zoo to have bred a platypus is Sydney’s Taronga Zoo.
+ The plural of platypus is just ‘platypus‘.
+ The platypus sleeps during the day, and moves mostly at night.
+ They also believe that it was twice the size of the modern platypus at one metre long.
+ The platypus can also hunt without using its eyes.
+ The first platypus specimen arrived in England in 1799 in the form of a skin of a dead platypus, so biologists could study it.
+ The duck-billed platypus is a small mammal.
+ This helps the platypus kick painfully.
+ There are only five species that lay Cleidoic eggeggs, the duck-billed platypus “Ornithorhynchus”, and four species of spiny anteater “Echidna”.
+ When the platypus moves on land, it walks on its knuckles so the webs on its feet will not get in the way.
+ David Fleay at the Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria had the first successful zoo-raised platypus in 1946.
+ The male platypus has spurs on the heels of its hind feet.