Let's explore the platypus’s diet. The platypus spends 12 hours on an average day searching for food. A platypus is a carnivore so their diet consist of crayfish, shrimp and worms. They dig their food out of the river bed with their snout or beak. To carry their prey they use their cheek-pouch to carry their prey back to the surface to eat it.
Let's take a closer look at the platypus habitat. The platypus