Guessing Game Poem by Pacific Hernandez

Who am I, please make a guess
Make a good one and be the best

I have leg spurs if I'm a male
I'm not a cock, no not I am

If I'm female a pair I have
At age one year, both them I shed
Anatine bills I do possess
I'm not a duck as you may guess
Though a mammal I'm considered
I lay my eggs just like a bird
A long burrow, yes, I do make
Wherein my puggles can sleep
And suckle though I have no teat

For four or five months they stay
On the fourth or fifth away go they
Like residents of an aviary
Functions not my right ovary

I have webbed feet and paddle tail
Reminding you of a beaver
But lodge nor dam I build neither

And in my tail fat I store
I must reserve for the future
When food is scarce ang much no more

When in water for food I dive
I close my ears, my nose my eyes
With electric sensors preys I catch
And While under I keep and save
In two pouches beside my cheeks
When overwater I emerge
With grinding pads all them I eat
Watermole, duckmole or tambreet
Are other monickers I keep

A minute my heart beats hundred plus
But more than double oft it does

Depending on the situation
My heartbeat is on suspesion
Bundaburra or mallanggong
Are other names I also own

My singular ends in '-pus'
And my plural ends in '-pi'
But it can also be in '-podes'
And when in group we're called a pile

A bungled patchwork some say I am
But that's a thing I shall deny
Please come and show me if you can
A nature's artwork stranger than I

If a good guess you cannot make
My real name to you I'll give

Ornithorynchus Anatinus,
Is the scientific name I use
I am The Duckbilled Platypus