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Are platypuses omnivores carnivores or herbivores?

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Platypuses are not omnivores, but carnivores. They eat tiny insect larvae and other invertebrates, shrimp, shellfish and annelid worms they find on the bottom of creeks and rivers. They do not eat plants of any description.
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