Word: wallaroo
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...have shown so much interest in animals as those who have just returned from expeditions to Australia and South America in search of specimens. Such travel has its 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...
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