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Author: Ann Moyal
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2004-10-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780801880520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEloquent and concise, Platypus uncovers the earliest theories and latest discoveries about this delightfully odd member of the animal kingdom.
Author: Jack Ashby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-08-04
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 022678925X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Naturalist and Assistant Director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, Jack Ashby shares his love for the platypus and other Australian mammals, including wombats, echidnas, and kangaroos. Informed by stories of his experiences meeting living marsupials and egg-laying mammals on fieldwork in Tasmania and mainland Australia and his close contact with thousands of zoological specimens collected for museums over the last 200 years, Ashby's book explains historical mysteries and debunks myths about these mammals and especially the platypus-which lays eggs, feeds its young on milk, has venom spurs, and sports a bill that can detect electricity. In evaluating how humans have considered these special mammals, he makes clear that calling these animals "weird" or "primitive"- or incorrectly implying that Australia is an "evolutionary backwater"-has only added to the challenges for their conservation. One outcome of these descriptions is that Australia now has the worst mammal extinction rate of anywhere on Earth. Ashby argues that many of the ways that the world thinks about Australia's mammals can be traced back to the country's colonial history"--
Author: James Vance Marshall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781847801241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Walkabout come ten of Australia's ancient aboriginal legends, authentically and elegantly retold. Here you can discover how Great Mother Snake created and peopled the world with plants and creatures, what makes Frogs croak, why Kangaroo has a pouch, and just what it is that makes Platypus so special. The illustrations are by the aboriginal artist and storyteller Francis Firebrace, whose distinctive, colourful work is known throughout Australia and beyond.
Author: Nette Hilton
Publisher: Inter Australia Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780864612724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Who are you?" asked the small glossy creature. "Am I one of yours?" Little Platypus is feeling lonely. He doesn't know where he belongs. How can he find a friend who is just the same?
Author: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780140567779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlatypus decides it's the perfect day to go collecting. He finds a big rock, an old shoe and a broken umbrella, but none of these are quite what he's looking for. Then he finds a curly shell - just right But it keeps going missing from his special box. The 'thief' turns out to be a little hermit crab living inside the shell so Platypus takes it back to the sea where it belongs. Luckily there are plenty of unoccupied shells for Platypus to collect - and keep.
Author: Patricia Harris
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-10
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781622889099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Paddy the Platypus leaves his home to find new friends, he is shocked to find that the other animals don't want to play with him. A beaver, an otter, and a family of ducks each poke fun at Paddy because he looks so odd. But when a baby bird falls from its nest and Paddy catches it with his soft snout, the other animals realize Paddy's differences are what make him so special. Paddy the Platypus is written in couplets, including a deliberate repetition of key phrases that young children can easily remember. The book is beautifully illustrated by Tristan Brewster-Arnold.
Author: Susan Stevens Crummel
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2013-01-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780823427536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"When a young child takes her favorite toy along to the park, the market, and the lake, and for a car ride, she mistakenly leaves him behind."--Publisher.
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781444937336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOi! Where are duck-billed platypuses meant to sit? And kookaburras and hippopotamuses and all the other animals with impossible to rhyme with names? Over to you, Frog!
Author: Chris Riddell
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780140567793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlatypus wants Bruce's birthday party to be as special as possible. With a little help from his friend Echidna, he makes party hats, a beautiful cake and decorations and it turns out to be a day to remember.
Author: Jackie Hosking
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781760651053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Australian reimagining of Edward Lear's nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat. The croc and the platypus trundled off in a rusty old Holden ute. They took some damper and tea in a hamper and bundled it up in the boot. Join Croc and Platypus for an Australian outback hullabaloo!
