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Australian mammal with venomous spurs, related to the platypus, known for its unique reproductive features.

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Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

But where does the male platypus keep this venom?

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Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

So there's platypuses, there's shrews, there's slow lorises, and there's selenodons, which are related to shrews.

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Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

Something else I didn't know until I read your book is that the male platypus has venom.

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Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

And then the bills kind of grow into a more platypus shape over months.

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Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

So I'd like people to go out in the world and, you know, call baby platypuses platypups.

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Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

uh area but when when she is ready they engage in this this beautiful aquatic dance where they follow each other around and they they bite on like he'll bite onto her tail and vice versa and they'll swim around in these platypus love circles uh and kind of go upside down and and tumble through the water um and then when when the moment comes

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Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

But what's been seen in captivity is it's very much up to the female platypus that whenever the male comes knocking, if she's not keen, she'll just swim off to another place.