Word: platypus
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...first time ever, a duck-billed platypus was born in captivity. The baby platypus was born to a pair named Jack & Jill in the Healesville animal sanctuary near Melbourne, Australia. Its birth was a big surprise to naturalists...
...platypus amuses most people by its funny name and its funny face (see cut). A very primitive link between mammals and aquatic birds, the platypus is a duckbilled, web-footed, molelike creature that nurses its young. It nests in a burrow in a river bank. The female lays small (¾ in. long), soft-shelled eggs...
...citizen was like: they had met him, in good season and bad, in all his types-from Admiral William Halsey Jr. and General Douglas MacArthur to the G.I.s in the bars. But last week they met another U.S. citizen as different and astonishing to them as the koala, platypus, kiwi, wombat and dingo had been to their forbears...
Australia's economy is out of joint, the barrel of Australia's limited manpower has been scraped to the bottom, every town and city is suffering from overcrowding, food shortages, lack of personnel in ordinary services. Domestic servants are as scarce as the platypus. It is a prospector's job to buy a package of cigarets or a glass of beer. The people's clothes are getting shabby. It is hard to buy simple things like matches and writing paper, impossible to buy golf or tennis balls, almost impossible to buy a razor blade...
...soldiers found that their high-school books were right: Australia's fauna was indeed teeming with strange cases of arrested evolution. There, sure enough, were the duck-billed platypus, the kangaroo, the dingo dog. There was another one that the zoology writers had left out. He was the "wowser," strangest beastie of them...