== Removed "designed by a committee" ==

It was in the lead for a week. It is unsourced, it is the single most repeated joke about this animal, and it is also wrong in a way that matters: the platypus is not a rough draft, it is a surviving branch. The replacement sentence about electroreception is funnier and it is cited. ~~~

: This is the right call. The rule is not "no jokes in the lead", it is "no jokes that are load-bearing lies". [[User:MonotremeMary|MonotremeMary]] ([[User talk:MonotremeMary|talk]]) 07:51, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

:: Adding to [[Witipedia:Be funny]] as an example of a dead joke, if nobody objects. [[User:Admin|Admin]] ([[User talk:Admin|talk]]) 10:03, 4 September 2026 (UTC)