Sydney - Volume 2
May 26th 2006 Sydney Aquarium
Back in Sydney and we visited the Aquarium, where we got to see our very first duck-billed platypus! These are freaks of nature, with bills and webbed feet like ducks, but fur and claws like digging animals. They are one of only 2 mammals which lay eggs (the other's the echidna, also only found in Oz), and they have to shut their eyes when they swim underwater so they use
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