Platypus

This creature is plump, brown, and covered in sleek fur, but it has a duck’s bill, a flat tail, and webbed feet.

Platypus CR 1/6

XP 65
N Tiny animal
Init +2; Senses low-light vision, electrolocation 30 ft.; Perception +1

AC 14, touch 14, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +2 size)
hp 3 (1d8–1)
Fort +1, Ref +4, Will +1

Speed 10 ft., swim 40 ft.
Melee spur +4 (1d3–4 plus poison)
Space 2-1/2 ft.; Reach 0 ft.

Str 2, Dex 14, Con 8, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 11
Base Atk +0; CMB +0; CMD 6 (10 vs. trip)
Feats Weapon Finesse
Skills Perception +0 (+4 underwater), Swim +14; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception underwater
SQ hold breath

Electrolocation (Ex)

While underwater, platypuses can sense the tiny electrical currents that trigger muscle movement. This allows them to locate living prey and distinguish it from inanimate objects. Treat electrolocation as blindsight 30 feet, but platypuses can sense only living creatures, and it functions only underwater.

Poison (Ex)

Spur—injury; save Fort DC 9; frequency 1/round for 4 rounds; effect 1 nonlethal damage; cure 1 save.

Spur (Ex)

A platypus’s spur attack is a primary natural attack that deals piercing damage.

Environment temperate or tropical rivers
Organization solitary
Treasure none

Platypuses are members of an extremely unusual order of egg-laying mammals that live in riverside burrows where they hunt for larvae, shellfish, and worms. Platypuses also have a remarkable electrical sense they use in place of hearing, scent, and sight while hunting underwater.

The average platypus is roughly 1-1/2 feet long and weighs 3-1/2 pounds.

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