For the first time on record a platypus, has been born in captivity. After five years at the Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary in Healesville the parent platypuses have produced a baby, says a message from Melbourne. Naturalists have believed that platypuses would not breed in captivity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1944, Page 2
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