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of Tasmania.
The platypus is an egg-laying mammal endemic to Eastern Australia,
It has brown fur all over its body and a wide, flat tail like a beaver's. The platypus' nose looks
like a duck's bill, but its nose can 17. many things that other animals' noses cannot. With
electroreception, the platypus can feel the power of other animals and keep its eyes 18.
while swimming and hunting, using only its hearing and touch. Owing to its unusual
appearance, the platypus was mistakenly 19. a fake by the first European scientists in the
late eighteenth century, who encountered it for the first time and thought it was made of
several animals sewn together. Furthermore, platypuses are difficult to see in the wild since
they don't like areas with people. 20. the number of platypuses is declining, they are not
under any immediate threat.
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