DuckBy: Leslie Gonzalez

Period 4

Link Scientific name Range Diet Physical Description Breeding Info Special Behavior Weird Info Video Sound Or Graph Conclusion

Scientific Name Anas Platyrhynchos

Range Ducks are found in wetlands, marshes, ponds,

rivers, lakes and oceans

Diet

Eats Grasses Aquatic Plants Fish Insects Small Amphibians orms

Physical Description The duck billed platypus is shaped as if pieced together from

several different animals. Its nostrils are at the end of its beak, which is a dark gray color, and allows the platypus to breathe while also having most of its body underwater. The importance of the bill is not simply for looking interesting, it actually serves a very important purpose in the platypus’s diet. Underwater, without the use of its eyes, ears, or nostrils, the platypus’s bill works as an electro-receptor system and has approximately 850,000 receptors. While underwater, the platypus can detect electric currents given off by activity from its prey, thereby locating it.

Breeding Info About 22 million ducks are raised annually in

the United States. Ducks are raised primarily for meat. Many farms still raise a few ducks primarily

for family use or local sale.

Special Behavior Or Unique Antamony

Bobbing head up and down Drake bitting and/or pulling the back of the

hens neck/feathers. Drake standing on hens back dunking the

hens head in the water

Weird Info They Have 3 Eyelids. Never Have Cold Feet Some Can Fly 322 Miles A Day ! Feathers Are Waterproof

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Conclusion My animal is a clean animal because it likes

being in the water.