MY EXOTIC ANIMAL: DUCK-BILLET PLATYPUS

This is a duck-billet platypus, one of the most weird animal that exists. He has a beak similar to ducks', and his legs and skin remind to otters'. The duck-billets are amazing because they have skills of bird, reptile and mammal what indicates that they are a link in the evolution between retpiles and mammals.

This kind of animal lives in the rivers and lakes of Tasmania and Australia. He is a digger, he builds dens in the cost of rivers. When he is under the water his eyes, ears and nostril are closed. For this reason, he has electroreceptors in his beak. The length of that oviparous is around 40cm. And, like marsupials, the milk that he produces is suckled by his children directly from the skin. The males segregate poison like snakes.

All these rarities become him in my favourite exotic animal.