2025-12-18
1 小时 9 分钟Oh, hey, it's the coffee shop guy who is happy to heat up your muffin, Ali Ward.
And though we can all be in Australia right now, we are all here for platypuses.
What is with this ology, you ask me, horrified by the amount of letters?
Well, ornithorhincus in Greek, that word, that portmanteau of words, means birdlike.
And the species we're going to be chatting about, anatanus, means ducklike.
So these critters' names...
literally translate to bird-like-duck-like.
Although there was this outmoded species named paradoxus, which just means unexpected.
Platypus itself, that word, means big, flat feet.
We're going to talk about those two,
as well as this other just constellation of confusions that is the platypus.
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