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🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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janus2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This will surely come in handy next time I have to do this.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
encounters with wild animals should always happen on their terms not yours!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That sounds a lot like something a seagull would say.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re venomous
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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Silly predators don’t know to hold the platypus up by the end of the tail!
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On they feet
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.
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.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’ll remember that the next time I need to pickup a platypus!
artifex@piefed.social 2 months ago
I hope to have to use this information someday.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
What effect does platypus venom have on a human, anyway?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
It gets you really high.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 months ago
On the pain scale.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
TIL a platypus makes venom.
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Very very horrible venom
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.
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!
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind.
AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 2 months ago
stealing this for my ttrpg character sheet
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 months ago
Also makes a handy melee weapon in a pinch
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
1d4 bludgeoning with 1d6 poison on a crit.
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?