There are many types of lethal venom in animal kingdom, but perhaps no strang carrier than the platypus. the platypus is one of few venomous mammals.males carry a venom cocktail in their ankles that victims with mammal uses excruciating pain. Stranger still, the platypus is the only electroreception. What this means is electricity that the platypus uses its bill to sense the produced by the muscular movements of its The smells its prey prey. platypus neither sees, hears, nor while hunting but, rather, is the onl pursues it through ion. Perhaps most odd, the platypus mammal that lays eggs rather than indeed. giving birth to live young. The platypus is an odd creature indeed