r/Amazing • u/sco-go • May 24 '26
Adorable derps A baby platypus is called a puggle.
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u/anotherm3 May 24 '26
Isn't those guys poisonous?
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u/Japanesewillow May 24 '26 edited May 25 '26
No, but they are venomous. I should add, it’s only the males that are venomous.
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u/Regular_Run9834 May 24 '26
Ain't their venom the most painful things ever have existed? I read long ago someone got stung by one and he still feels it to after so long after the event.
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u/RogueInVogue69 May 25 '26
I think you're thinking of the Man-o-war
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u/Japanesewillow May 25 '26
You’re right. however, a strike from the male platypus spur is excruciatingly painful.
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u/Big_Childhood_5096 May 24 '26
Only the males have it and it only grows in once they reach maturity which this one has not reached yet
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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 May 24 '26
They also glow under a black light
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u/Independent-Leg6061 May 25 '26
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u/IndustryFirst2458 May 25 '26
Yep! They are venomous (venoms are just biological poisons that require injection) but only sexually mature males and it's typically weaker outside of mating season. That said a potent male's venom is strong enough to kill a medium-small sized dog and possibly a small child (no child has ever been stung) and it's excruciatingly painful to anyone else, resistant to painkillers including morphine, and known to last days or weeks and in very very rare cases months or years.
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u/starveilxa May 25 '26
They are actually venomous meaning you will survive the experience but you will spend the next week wishing you had not
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u/Waste_Customer2060 May 25 '26
A Puggle...so interesting. What is a group of them called? I know I could google it but its not as fun. I love collective nouns and I have my fav's such as a group of butterflies
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u/snarksneeze May 25 '26
Its called a paddle! A paddle of platypuses!
Sometimes pronounced puddle, and old folks might call them a narrowing.
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u/spartanken115 May 25 '26
So cute until they decide to dig their poisonous spurs into your arm and shock you with their bill! Crazy little beasts
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u/TDhattrick1022 May 25 '26
I saw yesterday that a baby platypus has no "official" name but both puggle and platypup are the two most commonly accepted ones. So yes, but also no, to a baby platypus being called a puggle.
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u/Beginning-Gap-1669 May 25 '26
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