As a result of global warming, researchers have found that the cool rivers and ponds that platypus love to swim in could become too warm for them to survive.
The animals, considered some of the most intriguing on Earth, have evolved a watertight fur that enables it to feed for up to 10 hours a day in water that is close to freezing. However, as Australia’s waterways warm up, the thick pelt could spell disaster for the platypus.
Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne found that in 60 years one third of the platypus’s habitat could simply become too hot to sustain them.
But Steve, what else would you expect from…wait for it…
Kangaroo Court Science. 😆
Marsupials are the predecessors of mammals. Came Before! That would mean the Climate sensitive Platypus has lived through a great many climate extremes. The modelers do not know WTF they are talking about like most climatologists.
According to Aboriginal legend, the first platypus were born after a young female duck mated with a lonely and persuasive water-rat.
The duck’s offspring had their mother’s bill and webbed feet and their father’s four legs and handsome brown fur.
I looked it up here:
http://rainforest-australia.com/Platypus_history.htm
Gosh all those platypus in zoos must be extinct by now………….
Wouldn’t you think warmer would mean more food and they wouldn’t have to stay in the water so long………….
One year of Australian weather is just that, weather. Weather caused by jet stream disruption and global wierding. But one hot week in Moscow is climate.
Get that children, Australia=weather and Moscow=climate.