
Jack Ashby
@JackDAshby • 13,860 subscribers
Award-winning author #PlatypusMatters. Assistant Director of @ZoologyMuseum at @Cambridge_Uni. President of @SHNHSocNatHist. Australian mammal nerd. Own views
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A #platypus gets so carried away with scratching that she rolls off her rock. She's itching mainly where her milk patches and her milk glands (which spread up round onto their backs) are, so I suspect she is lactating. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #platypuses #WildOz
Jack Ashby23,075 просмотров • 1 год назад

Platypuses' bills can sense the electrical impulses running through the nerves of their prey - they move their bills like metal-detectors to hunt. They are one of the world's only electro-receptive #mammals. #fieldwork #Tasmania #platypus #WildOz #MammalWatching #platypuses
Jack Ashby15,838 просмотров • 1 год назад

Platypuses wiggle their heads from side to side while foraging, like a high-speed metal-detector. But instead of metal, their bills detect the tiny electrical impulses given off by their prey's muscle signals (including their hearts). #platypus #Tasmania #WildOz #MammalWatching
Jack Ashby13,312 просмотров • 2 лет назад
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