look what I found

[tessathehuntres]

I find it interesting when someone says a Platypus quacks like a duck.  So, I'm helping..

"The platypus has a variety of vocalisations. When they are disturbed, they may make a soft growling sound, like that of a puppy.

Despite the misnomer "duck-billed platypus", it does not make a quacking sound.
To listen to the vocalisations of a platypus, click

Comments

[campagnella]

I never actually wondered that one... thanks for the info!

[tessathehuntres]

No problem. I love the internet, you wonder about something and you can quickly round up lots of good information.

Someone made a comment about it and I remembered seeing a video in school about them. My memory didn't match the comment, so I thought I would look it up.

Sometimes useless trivia is still interesting.

[bataarsogdo]

And, if I remember right, a duck has two feet while a platypus has four.

[giannadiaurelio]

LOL....

AND from a recent show I watched on the Discovery Channel, the platypus has spurs on its hind legs which are poisonous. Not fatally so, but excrutiatingly painful.

[keastree]

I swear, I miss all the good stuff.