Among nature's most unlikely animals, the platypus is known well. They swim gracefully by paddling with their front webbed feet and steering with their hind feet and beaver like tail, platypuses hunt underwater. To prevent water from entering, folds of skin cover their eyes and ears.

The duck bill and webbed feet, beaver tail, and otter body and fur, the animal is best described as a hodgepodge of more familiar species. Males are also poisonous.  on the heels of their rear feet they have sharp stinger and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow to any foe.