The educational platypus L'ornithorynque pédagogique
Contents
Identity: A major discovery ♦ A primitive mammal ♦ Exclusively Australian.
Peculiarities: Twice unusual ♦ A portrait sketch ♦ External features ♦ A mixed anatomy ♦ Internal features .
Food: The quest for food ♦ The bill in action.
Adaptation: Natural habitat ♦ Water activities ♦ Land activities ♦ The two burrows ♦ Adaptation to the environment ♦ Managing risks ♦ Platypuses and people.
Reproduction: From sexual maturity to seduction ♦ From copulation to birth ♦ From the burrow to the open air ♦ In the privacy of the burrow.
Australian cousins: The other monotreme ♦ Between monotremes and placentals .
The platypus, a mirror of evolution: Between reptiles and mammals ♦ The genome deciphered ♦ From yolk to milk ♦ An olfactory world between land and water ♦ A venom that was not inherited from reptiles ♦ Sexe determination ♦ Colour vision.
© Cirad, 2014 - 28 €
