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Being as Australia has show himself in Hetalia <3

I've been on a Drawing spee of sorts (that explans the top sketch <3)

the milldle one is
How Australia's both Loves England for being his Bother and can sit down and have a beer with him or a cupper (that means having a cup of Tea lol after all these years we still love hower tea)
and hate him for all the stuff he's put him through (but he forgives the old Pommy (or Pom))

It's also about the Platypus Australia Gave England when he frist met him lol

Bottom sketch The Koala (whatever you do don't call him a bear, he's a Marsupial)

And Again the Platypus
Ok more infor on The Platypus>

When first sent to England, the duck-billed, web-footed platypus looked so strange to the scientists in London's British Museum that they thought it was a "fake". They thought that it had been put together by parts of other animals to fool them. They tried to prise off the animals bill and today you can still see the marks on the platypus at the Museum of Natural History in London.

The platypus is one of two egg laying mammals to be found in the world today, the other is the echidna. Both belong to a group called monotremes. They lay eggs with soft leathery shells, similar to those of reptiles.

In size and weight, the Platypus varies quite widely according to locality, but males average about half a metre in length and one to two kilograms in weight. Females are significantly smaller than males.

It is restricted to the seaboard and associated mountain ranges of eastern Australia from near Cairns to the vicinity of Adelaide, including Tasmania. However, it is quite fussy in its habitat requirements, reliant on unpolluted, relatively undisturbed rivers and streams, so it is strongly local in occurrence. It is apparently now extinct in South Australia, except for an introduced population on Kangaroo Island. Nevertheless, it remains common in a number of suitable localities and seems in no immediate danger.

Platypus are shy and wary. But in the early evening in a suitably quiet, secluded pool, they often emerge to spend some time at the surface, feeding, grooming or, sometimes, simply floating quietly as though sunbathing. Though strongly aquatic, platypus do occasionally come ashore, or haul out on some log or boulder to groom themselves.

The platypus is described as a semiaquatic animal with a flat, rubbery bill and a beaver like tail. The rubbery, supersensitive bill is used in sifting the bottom silt and gravel for minute animals. It is about 61 cm (24 in) long, weighs about 1.8 kg (4 lb), and has a coat of dark brown to yellow fur. Webbed feet enable the platypus to swim well. On each hind foot of the male there is a poison spur that can kill small animals and inflict painful wounds on larger ones. Eating by crushing its food with the horny plates of its bill and mouth, the platypus consumes about half its own weight in worms, insect larvae, mollusks, crustaceans, and vegetation. This it does underwater where it is blind and deaf. However, its bill has in built electric sensing powers that signal the presence of prey. No other animal has this, although some fish do have this sixth sense (humans have only five senses). The platypus can see and hear on land.

Sometimes several may be seen together in the same pool, but little is known of their territorial behaviour and, on the whole, Platypus appear to be largely solitary in habits. When not hunting, they spend most of their time in short residential burrows dug into the riverbank, with an entrance (or sometimes two entrances) barely above waterlevel.

Mating takes place in late winter and early spring. The female digs a burrow 4.6 to 18 m (15 to 60 ft) long, at the end of which she builds a nest and lays her eggs, usually two. The eggs are incubated for 8 to 10 days. After the eggs hatch, the young suck milk from the mammary glands of the mother. The young are weaned at about 5 months and reach sexual maturity within a year. The life span is about 10 years.

Oh England you are such a hyporcrit But we still love you lol
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artemisrox's avatar
lol platypi!
You just know Australia's the lovable scamp! what with the whole convicts and goldmines and laid back-ness