With reptilian traits of laying leathery eggs
A common aperture for breeding and faeces
No stomach, possesses venomous glands
Yet Platypus is a mammal with a furry skin
That produces milk to foster newly born
Has electroreceptors for hunting and navigation
With eyes tightly shut in the riverbed’s silt
It hunts by the spark that the muscles have built.
The bill of a duck on a beaver’s frame
A creature that logic could not really tame
From the dawn of the world, a survivor so old
With secrets the fossils had never yet told
The spur on its heel with a venomous sting
Not very lethal but gives pain so excruciating
Neither a bird or reptile nor a mammal alone
A strange paragon carved out of a unique stone.
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