Assertion: platypus | /r/CapableOf | find prey
Facets:
value: by sensing electric currents
type: MANNER
value: simply
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: To seal itself off from water, the platypus shuts off all of those normal senses and finds prey based solely on electrical signals and mechanical waves that it picks up using its bill.
text: In order to hunt, the platypus uses its bill or its claws to scratch the soil under the water or to simply catch prey while swimming.
text: It looks like a duck's bill, but is actually quite soft and covered with thousands of receptors that help the platypus detect prey.
text: It finds its prey by sensors in its leathery duck-like beak.
text: The platypus also uses its duckbill to shovel through the mud to catch its prey.
text: Even though it is deaf and blind under the water, platypus is able to detect its prey using special type of receptors located on its bill.
text: Platypuses close their eyes, ears, and noses underwater and find prey by sensing electric currents with their ducklike bills.
text: Catching prey, the platypus does not eat it immediately, it collects the catch in the cheek pouches and rises to the surface of the water.