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<< "WHY DOESN'T IT WORK?" ~ MAIN ~ NOT SEEKING RE-ELECTION >>

DID YOU KNOW ...

... that the platypus spends more time in REM sleep than any other mammal?

1. They’re dreaming of nose jobs so they can score a hot beaver….

   Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 04 at 01:42 PM • permalink



2. Doesn’t surprise me. Those little bastards can’t regulate their body temperature internally and, since they spend most of their time in cold water, have an absolutely cranking metabolism. They eat enormous amounts and process it all at super speed. If my body was working that hard I’d be shagged out, too.

   Posted by James Waterton on 2005 07 04 at 01:49 PM • permalink



3. ...or tail jobs so they can score a duck.

   Posted by ErnieG on 2005 07 04 at 02:28 PM • permalink



4. ‘I had the strangest dream last night.  I had a duck’s bill, poison spines in my legs, limbs jointed like a reptile, and I hatched from an egg…  What?!  OH MY GOD!!! NOOOOOO…’

   Posted by jic on 2005 07 04 at 04:24 PM • permalink



5. I’m sure this information is indispensable to Californian war veterans.

   Posted by Henry boy on 2005 07 04 at 05:16 PM • permalink



6. Having only 4 limbs makes hard work for these little critters, their cousins the octopus never sleep

   Posted by rog2 on 2005 07 04 at 06:32 PM • permalink



7. “When Gregor Samsa woke up, he found he had been transformed into a platypus.” — Kafka’s Metamorphosis, starring Paul Hogan and Yahoo Serious…

   Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 04 at 06:46 PM • permalink



8. I reckon the mammals at Live 8 slept more during REM than those beaky mutants. And that includes Michael Stipe, who’s been in an animated coma since 1987.

   Posted by Habib on 2005 07 04 at 08:34 PM • permalink



9. not only that, but they can swim up to 15 kilometres a night just for a root - platypuses that is, not REM who wouldn’t know a root if it bit them on the bum

   Posted by KK on 2005 07 05 at 10:16 AM • permalink



10. Since when is a platypus a mammal?  I thought it was a monotreme.

    Posted by robert speirs on 2005 07 05 at 10:16 AM • permalink



11. a monotreme is a special kind of mammal

    Posted by KK on 2005 07 05 at 11:32 PM • permalink



12. http://www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/medicine/research/mono/Platpage.html

    Posted by KK on 2005 07 05 at 11:33 PM • permalink



13. i wonder how many platypi were killed in this study?

    Posted by Astonished on 2005 07 06 at 07:04 AM • permalink



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