BURNUM

• Ornithorhynchus anatinus sapiens

• Usually shy and retiring creatures, the platypus like to keep to its self, hang out in its river bank burrows, swim, and eat.  Empathetic to his comrades' fight against bad humans, Burnum has taken up arms and joined his fellow IWG!

  • The platypus with its duck bill and webbed feet, is a unique animal. It and the two species of echidna are the only monotremes or egg-laying mammals to be found on earth. This creature is semi-aquatic, inhabiting small streams and rivers over an extensive range from the cold highlands of Tasmania and the Australian Alps to the tropical rainforests of coastal Queensland as far north as the base of the Cape York Peninsula. They have become extinct in various parts of Australia probably because of the declining water quality brought about by extensive land clearing and irrigation schemes.

• No stranger to being hunted, and sometimes overly sensitive to his unique nature, Burnum is quick to start a fight with offending humans.  Being one of the very few species of mammals to have electroception, Burnum is an expert at locating any of the enemy in hiding by reading a body's electrical signals.  Highly effective with his native boomerang, Burnum often surprises the hidden or camouflaged enemy by being able to locate them, smack them in the head with his special alloy boomerang, and then alerting his I.W.G. comrades to their location for the kill.  When close enough he will sting his opponents with his venomous heel spurs to incapacitate them, and if close to a river, will drag them to their watery deaths.  Burnum often kicks it with Irra and Makutu, not just because they have all have beaks or bills, but they share a love of home decor.

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