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From: morris@Shasta.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Net.bizarre Official Animal
Message-ID: <405@Shasta.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 14:20:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: Shasta.405
Posted: Tue Sep 24 14:20:59 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 20:17:38 EDT
References: <209@nrcvax.UUCP> <3313@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: morris@Shasta.UUCP (Kathy Morris)
Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: bizarre animal

In article <652@bu-cs.UUCP> todd@bu-cs.UUCP (Todd Cooper) writes:
>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.

Sorry, but the platypus *isn't* the only egg-laying mammal in existence.
There's also the echidna, or 'spiny anteater'.  Of course, it's from
Australia.  Why don't you just nominate Australia as official net.bizarre
country and be done with it?

(The platypus doesn't live in water.  It lives in burrows along the banks
of rivers.)

	Kathy Morris
	(morris@diablo.arpa,
	{decvax!decwrl | ucbvax | ...}!Glacier!diablo!morris)


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