Word: platypus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus...
...become the recipient of a wallaby. Dictionaries were consulted, and orders were issued to send the gift to the zoo when it arrives. Said Tine New York Worlds "T. R. never would have been caught like that. 'A wallaby? Bully! Loeb, cable Newman to send an echidna and a platypus along with the wallaby. And, Loeb, see if he can pick up a bandicoot or a phalanger. This country hasn't half enough marsupials and monotremes...
...compensations. There is considerable distinction in being on terms of familiarity with a live cassowary, to say nothing of a wallaroo. These men derive great satisfaction from pacing the deck with the paw of a wallaby tucked under one arm, and a cortege consisting of a duck-billed platypus, a green opossum and wombats trailing in the rear. One ship brought a huge tortoise, the last of his race, giant lizards, penguins and cormorants that had forgotten...