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Get the sneaky platypus mug.A monotreme found that's found in eastern Australia and Tasmania. When the skin of a young platypus was sent to Britain for examination in 1798, scientists thought it was a fake. The zoologist George Shaw (1751-1813), who worked at the British museum, even checked it for stitches, believing that it had been sewn together from parts of other animals (you can still see the scissor marks that he made on the pelt today). However, these creatures have been proven to be real. With a beaver-like tail, duckbill, flippers, and spiky fur, these must surely win the award for being one of Australia's strangest creatures.
The platypus is one of the world's few poisonous mammals. When trouble strikes, it squirts venom out through a hollow spur on its ankle (only males carry poison and they're more likely to use it on other males during the breeding season than on people).
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Get the Parry the platypus mug.A word designed to end a conversation when the conversation has reached an impasse—When you are arguing with a friend or acquaintance and the conversation is going nowhere, and neither side is actually listening to the other side, or is, but simply cannot or will agree whatsoever, and the ongoing argument is angering and emotionally damaging one or both parties. At this point platypus is invoked by one or both parties as a peaceful means of ending the topic.
‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.’ ‘No! Women are from Mars, and Men are from Venus.’ ‘Platypus.’
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