🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also makes a handy melee weapon in a pinch

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1d4 bludgeoning with 1d6 poison on a crit.

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    • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also psychological damage, at least 1d10. I mean, could you imagine someone attacking you with a live platypus?

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• janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  free him

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• svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This will surely come in handy next time I have to do this.

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• TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  encounters with wild animals should always happen on their terms not yours!

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds a lot like something a seagull would say.

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re venomous

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  • i_love_FFT@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As per the Wikipedia page on platipuses vebom:

    Crocodiles, Tasmanian devils and raptors are known local predators to the platypus, all of which can be impacted by the venom.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Silly predators don’t know to hold the platypus up by the end of the tail!

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On they feet

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this true? Can someone confirm? I wouldn’t like to grab a platypus this way only to find out it was a troll and get spurred.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kind of confirmed! Might only apply to wild ones or pissed off males - anything else I can find on YT is both from this same woman, and a full on love-fest with them like some sort of goofy water puppykittyducky.

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• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll remember that the next time I need to pickup a platypus!

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• artifex@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hope to have to use this information someday.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What effect does platypus venom have on a human, anyway?

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Painful but not deadly. Wikipedia mentions someone complaining about the pain a month after.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It gets you really high.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On the pain scale.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL a platypus makes venom.

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  • shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Very very horrible venom

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Non-necrotizing, non-fatal. There’s waaaaay worse out there, and much more commonly found too.

      Pain sucks, no doubt about that, but you’ll survive and not lose a limb.

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know if this is correct about platypuses, but this IS generally how you handle snapping turtles and you are much more likely to deal with one of those.

  Their dangerous trick has nothing to do with their legs though. It’s their neck. It is very long, very flexible, and fast. If you hold them the wrong way, they can hit you with a reach-around that is very much not the friendly sex move.

  Stay tuned for more wildlife handling tips from me, your local halfway engineer-turned-farmer!

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• llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind.

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• AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  stealing this for my ttrpg character sheet

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