Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals Ashby Jack
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals Ashby Jack Scientifically-informed and funny, a first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals--and how our perceptions…
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Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals Ashby Jack
Scientifically-informed and funny, a first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals--and how our perceptions impact their future.Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs, and can detect electricity. And what about antechinuses? Or a wombat: Their teeth never stop growing, they poop cubes, and they defend themselves with reinforced rears.
Platypuses, possums, wombats, echidnas, devils, kangaroos, quolls, dibblers, dunnarts, kowaris: Australia has some truly astonishing mammals, with incredible, unfamiliar features. The tiny marsupial carnivores whose males don't see their first birthday, as their frenzied sex lives take so much energy that their immune systems fail. But how does the world regard these creatures?
And what does that mean for their conservation?In
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