What does a duckbill platypus eat?

Question

What does a duckbill platypus eat?

Answer 1

They are carnivors. They search for their prey in mud using their filtrating bill (like ducks). Larvae, worms, insects, water shrimp, crayfish...

Answer 2

Small river shrimp are the mainstay of the diet.

Answer 3

what it can find in the river it lives in fish,cray fish,shrimp,and other things

Answer 4

platypuses are carnivores they like

worms

yabbies (a kind of small freshwater crayfish)

bugs and beetles

the platypus's bill is an electro-sensitive organ, they detect their prey by it's bio energy. They hunt with their eyes closed and probe with their bills