Title: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 05:48:44 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 05:48:44 PM
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 05:52:12 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 05:52:12 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8
It's very cute..
It's illegal in Alberta to keep native animals as pets.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 05:57:05 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 05:57:05 PM
If you capture and keep a platypus, which is highly endangered, you'll go to gaol. Likewise rock wallabies, koalas, quokkas, most nocturnal marsupials, bilbies and mallee fowl.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 05:59:17 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 05:59:17 PM
Its extremely illegal here. Some serious fines and even custodial sentences for capturing and confining native animals.Quote from: "Bricktop"
If you capture and keep a platypus, which is highly endangered, you'll go to gaol. Likewise rock wallabies, koalas, quokkas, most nocturnal marsupials, bilbies and mallee fowl.
So, that was a zoo or a wildlife sanctuary?
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 06:00:26 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 06:00:26 PM
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 06:35:52 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 06:35:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8
It sure is a friendly little guy.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 06:51:26 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 06:51:26 PM
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 06:52:38 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 06:52:38 PM
Unless it gets pissed and scratches you with its hind legs...Quote from: "Bricktop"
That one is very comfortable with humans.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 07:09:50 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 07:09:50 PM
But you must never try to handle them in the wild.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 07:11:40 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 07:11:40 PM
Yes, its a cutey...Quote from: "Bricktop"
But you must never try to handle them in the wild.
The chances of me ever seeing a playpus in the wilds of Southern Ontario are pretty remote.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 07:22:53 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 07:22:53 PM
Rare enough here in Oz.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 07:25:41 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 07:25:41 PM
Virtually nil, I'd say.Quote from: "Bricktop"
Rare enough here in Oz.
What's their range in Aus? Continent wide or just some regions?
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Frood on February 12, 2018, 09:22:54 PM
Post by: Frood on February 12, 2018, 09:22:54 PM
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 09:35:49 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 09:35:49 PM
Mostly along the Eastern coast. There's heaps of them near me in a creek. They are acrobat like swimmers, move fast, and can be hard to spot unless they don't care if they're seen.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
That's the first video I've seen of one in captivity..
They are a little bit like a small beaver or even an otter.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 09:37:18 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 09:37:18 PM
Duck's bill, and webbed feet.
Mammals physiology.
Egg layer.
Venomous glands.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 09:46:34 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 09:46:34 PM
World's weirdest critter.Quote from: "Bricktop"
Duck's bill, and webbed feet.
Mammals physiology.
Egg layer.
Venomous glands.
They have poisonous glands?
I gather they have no enemies.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 10:02:37 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 10:02:37 PM
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 10:05:24 PM
Post by: Bricktop on February 12, 2018, 10:05:24 PM
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 10:21:43 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 12, 2018, 10:21:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8
They are a strange critter.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Frood on February 13, 2018, 12:59:31 AM
Post by: Frood on February 13, 2018, 12:59:31 AM
I caught this one plucking crickets from the crotch of a tree in my yard. Not terribly afraid, it began to strut around and belt out squawks.
Cheeky little bugger ducked behind the tree and gave me the nah nah nah nah Nah! eagle eye after I whistled at it.
They're smart and mostly harmless unless it's breeding season. Lots of people have been face or head attacked when they're feeling randy.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2018, 01:02:57 AM
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2018, 01:02:57 AM
An underreported menace of Australia is the common magpie.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
I caught this one plucking crickets from the crotch of a tree in my yard. Not terribly afraid, it began to strut around and belt out squawks.(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180213_163938_1518500879773.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22https://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180%20...%20879773.jpg%22%3Ehttps://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180213_163938_1518500879773.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Cheeky little bugger ducked behind the tree and gave me the nah nah nah nah Nah! eagle eye after I whistled at it.
They're smart and mostly harmless unless it's breeding season. Lots of people have been face or head attacked when they're feeling randy.
We have magpies here Dinky, but they have different colouring..
About the same shape and size though.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Frood on February 13, 2018, 01:10:19 AM
Post by: Frood on February 13, 2018, 01:10:19 AM
An underreported menace of Australia is the common magpie.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
I caught this one plucking crickets from the crotch of a tree in my yard. Not terribly afraid, it began to strut around and belt out squawks.(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180213_163938_1518500879773.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22https://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180%20...%20879773.jpg%22%3Ehttps://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180213_163938_1518500879773.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Cheeky little bugger ducked behind the tree and gave me the nah nah nah nah Nah! eagle eye after I whistled at it.
They're smart and mostly harmless unless it's breeding season. Lots of people have been face or head attacked when they're feeling randy.
We have magpies here Dinky, but they have different colouring..
About the same shape and size though.
Are they as stoic and cunning as the ones here?
One can be driving 110 down a road approaching one that's eating something it can only see, and at the last second it backs off a foot or two either way, then casually resumes pecking at its bounty.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2018, 01:13:39 AM
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2018, 01:13:39 AM
An underreported menace of Australia is the common magpie.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
I caught this one plucking crickets from the crotch of a tree in my yard. Not terribly afraid, it began to strut around and belt out squawks.(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180213_163938_1518500879773.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22https://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180%20...%20879773.jpg%22%3Ehttps://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180213_163938_1518500879773.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Cheeky little bugger ducked behind the tree and gave me the nah nah nah nah Nah! eagle eye after I whistled at it.
They're smart and mostly harmless unless it's breeding season. Lots of people have been face or head attacked when they're feeling randy.
We have magpies here Dinky, but they have different colouring..
About the same shape and size though.
Are they as stoic and cunning as the ones here?
One can be driving 110 down a road approaching one that's eating something it can only see, and at the last second it backs off a foot or two either way, then casually resumes pecking at its bounty.
Oh they are Machiavellian.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2018, 11:09:43 AM
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2018, 11:09:43 AM
An underreported menace of Australia is the common magpie.Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
I caught this one plucking crickets from the crotch of a tree in my yard. Not terribly afraid, it began to strut around and belt out squawks.(//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180213_163938_1518500879773.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22https://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180%20...%20879773.jpg%22%3Ehttps://s18.postimg.org/gbl8ckm9l/20180213_163938_1518500879773.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
Cheeky little bugger ducked behind the tree and gave me the nah nah nah nah Nah! eagle eye after I whistled at it.
They're smart and mostly harmless unless it's breeding season. Lots of people have been face or head attacked when they're feeling randy.
It resembles blue jays.
Title: Re: Pet platypus, anyone?
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2018, 04:29:13 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2018, 04:29:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6QHzIJO5a8
Oh my God it's so cute.