duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Query: mammals of australia

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Subject:	duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
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Platypus plate. Reproduced from Bilderbuch für Kinder: enthaltend eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchten ...
Date 1798
Source http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/gateways/archive/52/p16a01.html
Author J.F. Bertuch (Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch, 1747 – 1822)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Platypus-plate.jpg

The platypus or duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is one of the extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.

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