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From: dlnash@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Donald L. Nash)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Duck billed platypus not the only egg laying mammal
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 14:17:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 14:17:08 1985
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Keywords: mammals, eggs, Mother Nature's mistakes

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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.

But the duck billed platypus is not the only egg-laying mammal in existence.
There is also the spiny (or is it spiney) anteater.  Both these animals are
native to Australia and both lay leather eggs.  It has been postulated that
these two creatures were Mother Nature's first try at making mammals and
that she didn't quite get it right.

					Don Nash

Can't post my UUCP address 'cause I don't know it yet (I'm new here).
By the way, my vote for Official Animal goes to the character Animal
from The Muppet Show.


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