Penelope, the Bronx Zoo Platypus That Faked a Pregnancy and Then Disappeared
The Bronx Zoo wanted a baby platypus. Penelope gave them something better: publicity.
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Winston Churchill asked Australia to send him a platypus by ship in secret World War II mission
A live platypus had never been seen in Europe when Churchill hatched his bizarre plan to have one sent 20,0000km by sea to London Zoo in the middle of history's biggest global war.
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Winston Churchill's 'magnificently idiotic' platypus quest – and more strange stories of Australian animals abroad | Wildlife
The colonisation of Australia coincided with a boom in European interest in exotic animals – so kangaroos, dingoes, wombats and more were shipped off regardless of practicalities
Source: theguardian.com
The book that changed me: how H.H. Finlayson's The Red Centre helped me see country – and what we have done to it
John Woinarksi’s copy of this 1935 classic of environmental writing is older than him, mostly broken, much read and priceless.
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Rare Films of Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Discovered
Until DNA researchers figure out a way to de-extinct the thylacine, or someone captures a live one rumored to still be roaming the Australian and Tasmanian bush, one of our only looks at the magnificent Tasmanian tiger is via black-and-white films of the last known member of the species – Benjamin, who was captured in
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