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The platypus
Harry Burrell
It has a duck's bill, lays eggs, and nurses its young, and for a century zoologists could not agree what it was. Harry Burrell tells the whole story of the platypus: its discovery, the controversies, and its strange characteristics. Detailed, patient, and full of wonder. A definitive account of one of nature's most confounding creatures. Meet the platypus, the animal that broke the rules of classification.
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33 chapters
- 1THE PLATYPUS
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- 6CHAPTER II DISCOVERY AND EARLY DESCRIPTIONS
- 7CHAPTER III CONTROVERSY ON THE ZOOLOGICAL POSITION
- 8CHAPTER IV CONTROVERSY ON THE LAYING OF EGGS
- 9CHAPTER V GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- 10CHAPTER VI NERVOUS ORGANIZATION AND SENSORY PERCEPTIONS
- 11CHAPTER VII THE SPUR AND CRURAL GLAND
- 12CHAPTER VIII THE NESTING-BURROW
- 13CHAPTER IX DISTRIBUTION AND HAUNTS
- 14CHAPTER X HABITS
- 15CHAPTER XI BREEDING HABITS AND LIFE HISTORY
- 16Mating
- 17Breeding-season
- 18The Intra-uterine Egg
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