Ornithorhynchology (PLATYPUSES) with Tahneal Hawke

Oh hey, it's the coffee shop guy who is happy to heat up your muffin, Allie Ward. And though we can't all be in Australia right now, we are all here for platyposes. What is with this ology, you ask me, horrified by the amount of letters? Well, Ornithhoryncus in Greek, those that word, that portmanteau of words, means bird-like. And the species we're going to be chatting about, Anatonus, means duck-like.

So these critters' names literally translate to bird-like, duck-like. Although there was this outmoded species name Paradoxus, which just means unexpected. Platypus itself, that word means big flat feet. We're going to talk about those two, as well as this other just constellation of confusions that is the platypus.

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