Unique And Unusual

The duckbill

Practical energy storage

Every night, the duckbill eats at least one pound of food. When hunting is not possible, the duckbill lives on the fat reserve stored in its beaver-like tail.

Caution - dead end street!

Duckbills prepare one den for the resting time and a second one for the hatching time. For breeding, the female digs a nest construction which may be as long as 12 meters or even longer.

The Lord enables her to protect the den against flooding: she digs the entrance in such a way that at first, it goes steeply upward.

In addition, she builds several protecting walls in her den so her enemies (dogs, cats, foxes and snakes) think that they are in a dead end street. They turn around then and give up the hunt.

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