http://swenglishrantings.com/Animals/?p=35
"We got into a discussion today regarding what kind of animal the Platypus really is.
I mean, think about it - it has a duck bill, a beaver tail, otter feet, it lays eggs AND it has milk for the babies!!!
A friend of ours said “they’re like a SmörgÃ¥sbord speciesâ€, and I have to agree with her on that one! It’s like a mix of all sorts of animals, as if God had some extra parts left, put them all together and got a bit of a chuckle out of what he saw…
Hubby must have gotten confused about this whole Australian animals thing, because he said that maybe it was a marsupial…, well, kangaroos and koalas live in Australia, and THEY are marsupials, which means that they have a pouch on their stomachs in which the baby grows - but I’ve never seen a pouch on a platypus!"
