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PostPosted: 09/11/21 9:43 am    ::: Platypus news! Reply Reply with quote

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/platypus-australia-royal-national-park_n_61380fc5e4b0df9fe27c8df8

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Scientists in Australia are preparing to reintroduce platypuses to the country’s oldest national park after they disappeared from the area almost 50 years ago



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PostPosted: 09/11/21 10:20 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

That reminds me. In one of my now criminally wasted million moments of my life playing the 8-Ball Pool app, I happened to play someone named Keegan. Country: Australia. Probably a common name there though.



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PostPosted: 04/11/23 7:47 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65158947

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An Australian man has been charged after allegedly stealing a platypus from the wild, taking it on a train and then showing it off at local shops.



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PostPosted: 10/13/23 10:14 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

https://www.livescience.com/health/platypus-stabs-woman-with-its-venomous-spurs-in-odd-case

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A platypus wandering by a roadside in Australia stabbed a woman with its venomous spurs when she attempted to lift it from a gutter.



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PostPosted: 10/14/23 8:46 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

What's odd about it? The platypus did what platypus do.



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PostPosted: 10/17/23 8:54 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

So now, I hafta know....what IS the plural of "platypus"?

Platypusi? Platypusses? Platypuses?

And what might you call a group/bunch/herd/gaggle of these creatures?



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PostPosted: 10/17/23 9:02 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I believe the plural is actually platypuses, but platypi is more fun to say.

A group of them is a paddle.



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PostPosted: 10/17/23 10:37 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

pilight wrote:
I believe the plural is actually platypuses, but platypi is more fun to say.

A group of them is a paddle.


Well, if you knew those (correct) answers before you looked at the link, I'm duly impressed. Cool



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