A MINUTE IN THE LIFE OF A SMALL PLATYPUSE

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A little fact about these animals: The platypus is the only poisonous oviparous mammal on the planet. Its venom disrupts hemostasis (blood regulation) and nociception (pain regulation), causing nausea, swelling and excruciating pain throughout the body that lasts for weeks in humans and cannot be relieved by morphine.

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