Jack Ashby

And the penis only pops out when it's needed.

They don't even... They don't pee through their penises, which is unusual.

Wow.

And, yeah, he'll kind of fold the back end of his body under hers.

And, yeah, they'll mate.

And then he'll swim off into the sunset never to be seen again.

Really?

Yeah, exactly.

Digs a burrow, digs a nesting burrow, which is long, 10 metres long, with a chamber at the end, and she'll keep that moist with some vegetation, lay her eggs after...

It's either three weeks of gestation and then 10 days of incubation, or the other way around.

They're most like snake and crocodile eggs.

So they're a bit flexible, turtle eggs.

So they're kind of...

marble they're a bit like an elongated marble they're just you know one and a half centimeters or so long and a little bit shorter a little bit less fat than that um and she'll lay two or three of them mostly two and they stick together which is quite unusual so they're covered in some kind of in some kind of secretion that means that they stick together and i think perhaps that makes them easier to keep hold of and she'll keep them clamped in her fold up like against her belly in a by folding her tail up over them which is kind of sweet and then

They're so adorable.

There isn't really a word for them.

So I've proposed platypups.

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

But they're born, so they hatch with a kind of like comedy human nose.

And that's because they've got this little lump called a caruncle, which they use firstly to break out of the shell.