Males have poisonous spurs on their ankles to help fight off predators is true about platypus.
Platypus can also be called duck-billed platypus and it is somehow an aquatic animal that lay eggs and it is commonly found in eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living of the monotypic taxon of its family and genus but there are a number of related species that appear in the fossil record.
It is venomous and one of the few mammals that lay eggs.
Therefore, males have poisonous spurs on their ankles to help fight off predators is true about platypus.
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