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TIL: Hummingbirds continue to learn new songs and can adapt older songs throughout their lifetimes.
R7ON6
TIL that platypuses lose their senses of sight, sound, and smell underwater, so they hunt prey using electroreception. Mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors in their bill allow them to use electrical impulses to locate objects in the deepest and darkest of waters.
b9AOa
TIL: Platypuses (when swimming/hunting) are also one of the only mammals to use electroreception, meaning they locate prey by the electrical pulses they generate through their body.