Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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And then at the end of each head, there is like several large spikes.
But then the whole penis itself is also covered in smaller spikes.
So yeah, not my idea for good time.
I'll put it like that.
um yeah like they're not huge spikes but they're definitely hard like I wouldn't want to touch it with my fingers so I can't imagine it's too pleasant how are there any platypuses on the planet yeah yeah good question
Yeah, I don't really know, to be honest.
It might be like something to do with just how they're mating in the water.
So perhaps it's like a mechanism.
to make sure that they stay interlocked.
When they're mating, there's like a whole heap of circling maneuvers that are kind of happening, often called like a love donut leading up to the breeding.
But then when they're breeding, the male will be on top.
But yeah, we're not really sure about the mechanisms of why they have these barbs.
But we do also see them in echidnas, which is their closest living species.
And echidnas are on land.
So I'm not sure of the evolutionary reasons why they've retained those spurs.
Once the female is pregnant, it's quite a quick process to egg laying.
So the male and the female will mate usually within a week after that.
The female knows she's pregnant.
She's going to start collecting nesting material.
So they are a mammal, but they do construct a nest, as you would expect a bird does, obviously because they're laying those eggs.
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