"Curious platypus", from Harriet Ritvo's collection The Platypus and the Mermaid and other Figments of the Classifying Imagination, Cambridge Mass, Harvard University Press, 1997.	"Splash", Robert Eadie's 1930s platypus - from Charles Barrett, The Platypus, Melbourne, Robertson and Mullins, 1944.

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