The chirpy platypus sounds shared by @unsw almost sound like beeping, something one commenter compared to a failed internet connection from the 1990s. "Platypus bot cannot connect to WIFI," they ...

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus): ... While vocalization has not been recorded in the wild, captive platypuses produce low-pitched growling sounds when disturbed or handled.

Victorian scientists enlist sniffer dogs on paddleboards to locate platypuses in the wild and increase knowledge of the ...

"The platypus is the most touchy, temperamental, unpredictable animal," says Australia's David Fleay, and he should know. ... (“It helps them get accustomed to people and noise”).

However, the specialized cells on the platypus’s bill allow it to pick up electric pulses. This sixth sense in the platypus is called electrolocation and it’s a highly effective method of hunting.

Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian man who befriends a platypus he names Zoom. With the help of experts, Pete learns more about the platypus’s secret world in a mission to protect them ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.