the platypus an amazing mammal by: carson cook & claire bettler

Platypi outlineIntroduction

Name three main ideasTransitions

Body # 1: Main: habitat/ where they liveAustraliaStreamsBurrow

Body #2: Main: LooksSpurs

Webbed FeetBill

Body #3: Main: FoodDiet

Hunting preyWhen they eat

ConclusionNothing new

Repeat three main ideas

HABITAT

• LIVE IN EASTERN AUSTRALIA

• LIVE IN BURROWS

• SWIM ALONG STREAMS

LOOKS• MALES HAVE VENOMOUS SPURS ON EACH HIND LEG

• HAVE WEBBED FEET

• HAS A BILL LIKE A DUCK

• LOOKS MAINLY LIKE A DUCK

FOOD• DIET CONSISTS OF DIFFERENT INSECT LARVAE, SHRIMP, CRAYFISH, WORMS, FLIES, MUSSELS, TROUT EGGS, FROG EGGS, TADPOLES, SMALL FROGS, AND FISH

• HUNTS FOOD BY DIVING TO BOTTOM OF LAKES AND STREAMS ROCKING ITS HEAD FROM SIDE TO SIDE

• EATS AT NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING BECAUSE IT IS NOCTOURNAL

Platypi are the only mammals to lay eggs except for the echidna

The scientific name for the platypus is Ornithorhynchus anatinus, which means "bird-like snout"

A baby platypus is called a “platypup”

THE platypus is a nocturnal animal

THE platypus is sometimes called a “ duck- mole”

PLATYPUS FUN FACTS

A PENCIL DRAWING OF A PLATYPUS

A PLATYPUS SMIMMING ALONG A STREAM

A PICTURE OF AUSTRALIA WHERE THE PLATYPUS

LIVES

A REAL PICTURE OF A PLATYPUS IN THE GRASS

A CARTOON DRAWINGY OF A MOTHER PLATYPUS IN A BURROW

A PLATYPUS DIVING TO THE BOTTOM OF A STREAM TO LOOK FOR FOOD

I Am A Platypus 

I am a little platypus small and shy,I live in a world that is not dry.

 All my friends and family are just like me,

eating little insects but not the bee. 

by Renae Bush (age 12) 

Why don't Mr. & Mrs. Platypus ever go to Thanksgiving dinner parties?

Because they get very nervous every time they hear someone say" Here comes the Platypi." (pie)

A PLATYPUS JOKE

Tino Sanmiguel

BIBLIOGRAPHYThe World Book Encyclopedia 1992 edition letter P issue book number 15

A Platypus, Probably By Sneed B. Collard III illustrated by Andrew Plant

http://http://www.genevaschools.org/austinbg/class/gray/platypus/food.html

http://www.genevaschools.org/austinbg/class/gray/platypus/habitat.html

http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/do/article?urn=urn%3AUS%3BAR...

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A CARSON COOK AND CLAIRE BETTLER POWERPOINT PRESENTATION