They knew about the platypus' sense of electrodirection a couple of decades ago, when I was in college.
God stepped on the beak of the poor platypus, And that's how he came to have so flat a puss. Oh, who can imagine what it's like to be stuck With a rear like a beaver and a front like a duck?
The platypus hunts exclusively in water. It took scientists years to discover the electro-receptors, and they could never work out how it found its prey because the animals close their eyes, ears and nostrils when underwater.
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God stepped on the beak of the poor platypus,
And that's how he came to have so flat a puss.
Oh, who can imagine what it's like to be stuck
With a rear like a beaver and a front like a duck?
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It's a trait that seems to work best in the water.
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