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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Net.bizarre Official Animal
Message-ID: <1777@pyuxd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 23:06:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 23:06:43 1985
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> How about the Duck Billed Platypus (aka Onithoryncus Anitinus (spelling?))
> for the official net.bizarre animal.
> 
> It is the *ONLY* egg-laying mammal in existence.  In lives in Australia.
> It lays a leather egg.  It suckles its young like a mammal.  It has a Bill
> (mouth) like a duck and lives in the water.

It is also the only animal in existence that has an "Inspected by 6" sticker
on the lower hind quarters of its body at birth.

(Not many people know that...)
-- 
"There!  I've run rings 'round you logically!"
"Oh, intercourse the penguin!"			Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr


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