(Source: tragedyseries)

biomedicalephemera:

The Ornithorhynchus

This illustration makes me feel like I could train a platypus to beg for treats…they’d probably stab me with their venomous leg-spikes. Well, the males, at least. 

Types of Animal Life. St. George Mivart, 1893.

fuckyeahtattoos:

Done in Elkhart Indiana, my friend found a shark that had a top hat and a monocle online and was just getting that. Sharks arn’t really me though. This suits me a little more.  I consider myself unique in a world full of a mammals, and sort of silly just like a platypus.

iseegodinbirds:

GPOYrunningtowardsfoodtoday editon

Psyduck / Koduck / Psykokwac

by RacieB, on Deviant Art.

Ich mag Schnabeltiere !
— That’s what coworker teach me today. My first words in german.

Drôle et très pertinent…je conseille !

The Platypus are the only mammals known to have a sense of electroreception: they locate their prey in part by detecting electric fields generated by muscular contractions. The Platypus’ electroreception is the most sensitive of any monotreme.
— Wikipedia. (via gridou)

(that’s a real book, published in 1976.)


By André Bergamin