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• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Show loris(big eyes), African crested rat(spiky hair), Cuban solenodon(shrew like thing), and of course the platypus.

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  • etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was only aware of a platypus. Is it all administered through some barb like appendage on the legs? Which one shoots venom missiles?

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    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The loris and the solenodon have toxic saliva. The rat is controversial as it slathers chewed up poison dart tree on itself so hairs absorb it but it doesn’t produce venom/poison itself. Not sure of any “venom missiles” from mammals.

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No scients teatcher would say that

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  • scintilla@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have some depressing news for you about southern education.

    (for clarification I know some schools are good but most are not. My middle school state history teacher said that slaves in my state had it good; because we were unique in having laws about how hard you can beat slaves. Which is untrue and also they were not enforced for obvious reasons.)

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  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Creationist ones might

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• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  English teachers: 😢

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• ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They all are so cute I want to hug them

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• CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the most evil looking platypus I’ve ever seen. Maybe the only not cure picture that exists.

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• neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL mammals can lay eggs.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All mammals lay eggs. Most of them just lay eggs inside themselves.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you’re gonna be anal about it, technically “laying” could be argued to be inaccurate, (although then you’d get into the semantics about how it’s technically referring to careful putting down, and I don’t know if you could argue that for like, pigeons), but I’d definitely agree that all mammals have eggs.

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• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Recently went down the rabbit hole (ok, I’m lying, I just read a Wikipedia article and one scientific study), and the venomousness of the platypus has crazy implications for mammal evolution:

  It is thought to be an ancient mammalian characteristic, as many non-monotreme archaic mammal groups also possess venomous spurs.

  (The monotremes are the platypus and the echinda, which unlike the platypus isn’t venomous but still has the spurs.)

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• Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  "teat"cher… well they ARE mammals?

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Awww

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, the Slow Loris and shrew are venomous???

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• Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Finally a legit reason too post a sign about speleodontidae: youtu.be/m6xwePOoan8

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