![]() "When the Platypus lays eggs it is thought that she incubates them by resting them on her stomach and curling her tail over them." Platypus babies are not called "puggle", but they gotta have a cute name, so some suggest a name "platypup". A crazy concoction of bird parts (the bill), reptile internal organs, that is actually a mammal, swimming underwater for 10 minutes at a time. Platypus is so weird looking, that it was considered a fraud when first discovered (somebody must've stuck a duck bill to a beaver's body). "Happiness is a well fed puggle", says Den: (photos by Den Whitton, more images in this set) You can see the needles starting to grow: Here's an orphaned 30 days old echidna, without fur and spines yet: Their eggs are incubated in a pouch, and the mother carries the baby until it starts to grow spines. Just like porcupines and hedgehogs they curl into a ball when disturbed or frightened. Echidnas and the Platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, so all this cuteness (ugliness) actually hatched out of an egg: imagine this cute snout poking out of the shell.Įchidnas (or "spiny anteaters") are toothless - they break open the termite nests and ants get stuck to their long sticky tongues. ![]() ![]() (baby echidna, photos by Den Whitton, on the bottom right: grown echidna, source: AP Photo/Dan Peled)īaby echidna is called a "puggle" (puggle-licious!). ![]() and some say the ugliest! You can make up your mind here, after seeing this wonderful series of images (by an exclusive permission of Australian photographer Den Whitton).ĭen thinks "it's unfair that the platypus gets all the fame when the echidna is just as weird, and even less understood. Platypus and echidna babies are considered to be the cutest. Later, he clarified the confusion on his Instagram account about the origin of the picture.Send us your topic ideas, suggestions, etc. He had earlier shared the picture of the sculpture on his feed which created quite the buzz within the baby animal picture-junkies. Turns out the creature in the image is a piece of art by a fantasy artist named Vladimir Matić-Kuriljov. Not like the real baby platypus isn't cute but everyone wanted to know the origin of the other image. This is what a baby platypus actually looks like. However, their doubts were right because the bad news here is that the image isn't a picture of a baby platypus. XEANd6YY5f- Lotty Earns February 15, 2020 I think a baby platypus is the closest we're going to get to a baby Yoda. Some even compared the picture to the likes of being the closest thing to baby Yoda. I- don’t know if this is real but if this really a baby platypus I love him so much? /JkYKXRod5e- Kyra February 15, 2020 There were several people that were so mesmerised by the baby's cuteness that they were finding it hard to believe that it's even real. Soon enough, the image went viral with people sharing it all over social media. So, it was expected that when the picture of a 'baby platypus' started doing the rounds on the Internet, everyone went gaga over it. Everyone loves their daily dose of 'aww-dorable' pictures of baby animals and why wouldn't they? It's the best way to kick back and relax while enjoying cute animals just being cute.
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