FIRST PLATYPUS BRED IN CAPTIVITY
Recd. 7.45 p.m. Melbourne, Jan. 5. For the first time on record, a platypus has been born in captivity. After five years at the §ir Colin Mackenzie sanctuary, Healesville, the parents have bred a baby. Naturalists had believed that platypuses would not breed in captivity.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 2
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50FIRST PLATYPUS BRED IN CAPTIVITY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 2
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