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...have busied themselves with the delicate problem of platypus family life. Platypus reproduction is a baffling business, for platypuses are not quite mammals. Their blood is warm and they have mammal-like fur, but they lay soft, reptile-type eggs about ¾ in. long. From the eggs hatch blind, hairless little "larvae" that nurse by licking milk from their mother's mammary pores. Only after several months do they frisk out of their burrow as furry platykittens...
...July 9 Penelope retired to her burrow and did not appear again for six days. She ate an enormous meal and popped back again. The curators hovered around, smiling at one another like fond godfathers. All the signs pointed to platypus eggs, perhaps even hairless platypus infants wriggling in the nest...
...alternate Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) has as many electric score-keeping gimmicks as a pinball machine, and features Cartoonist Al Capp as a wisecracking moderator who fires questions at a guest panel, including a mystery guest disguised as one of Capp's comic-strip characters (currently Hairless Joe). The show has a particularly noisy studio audience because each member holds a ticket with the name of one of the four panelists, and the backers of the winning contestant divide $2,000. Sponsor: Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid...
...elephant in captivity, says Heinrich Oberjohann, is a pious fraud-a nine-foot canting hypocrite that gives the human public what it wants while privately laughing up its trunk at the hairless little apes. Only in the wilds of Asia and, better still, of Africa, can elephant nature be seen in the raw; and then usually only by other elephants, for the largest of land animals is also one of the more elusive...
...Body. In 40 years, Fuess (pronounced Fuss, Few-ess, Feis and Foos-but he prefers Fease) came to know some of the nation's top schoolmen, and he soon realized that the "caricature of the pedagogue with . . . his emaciated and bony body, his oversized horn spectacles, and his hairless, shining dome, in no way corresponds to reality...