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The Platypus.

Commonly known as the duck billed platypus. Lives in creek beds and burrows from below the water line then up to dry ground. This allows the entrance to be hidden. He’s a fellow that not many have seen. One needs to stand or sit very still for two or three minutes then the creature will continue its task at hand which is probably food scavenging.
It has a bill like a duck, thus the name, webbed feet too like a duck but they are retracted for movement on land and a tail and fur like a beaver. It can defend itself with poison spikes behind its hind feet. It feeds on small aquatic creatures such as prawns (shrimp) and some insects.
It is a mammal but not a marsupial. She lays an egg which she nurtures with body heat by holding it against her tummy with her tail. The only other egg laying mammal is the Echidna which was featured yesterday.