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 =====The Platypus=====
-Did you know that the platypus is poisonous?
+Did you know that the platypus is poisonous?\\
 Do you know how long the platypus digs his burrow?
-The platypus is rarely seen by bushwalkers. However, now and. then One may
-be seen diving to the bottom of one of the pools in the Nattai or Soto other creek in the mountains.
+The platypus is rarely seen by bushwalkers. However, now and then one may be seen diving to the bottom of one of the pools in the Nattai or some other creek in the mountains.
-After its discovery on the Hawkesbury River in 1797, the platypus took a
-considerable time to become accepted by the scientific world. Some declined
+After its discovery on the Hawkesbury River in 1797, the platypus took a considerable time to become accepted by the scientific world. Some declined to accept as a genuine production of nature, a creature apparently half mammal and half bird, furred and webfooted, with a beavertail and ducklike bill. Soon, however, there was ample proof that the "Duckbill Mole" or "Water Mole" - old colonial names for Ornithorkynchus anatinus - actually existed. Early reports of the fact that it laid eggs were discounted until a young Cambridge zoologist named Caldwell described the eggs in some detail in 1884. Actually the platypus along with its cousin, the Echidna or spiny Anteater, are the only egg laying mammals in the world.
-to accept as a genuine production of Nature, a creature apparently half mammal and half bird, furred and webfooted, with a beavertail and ducklike bill. Soon, however, there was ample proof that the "Duckbill Mole" or "vat= Mole"  old colonial names for Ornithorkynchus anatinus 7 actually existed. Early reports of the fact that it laid eggs were discounted until a young Cambridge zoologist named Caldwoll described the eggs in some detail in 1884. Actually the platypus along with its cousin, the Echidna or spiny Anteater, are the only egg laying mammals in the world.
-The female platypus has mammary glands without nipples and suckles its
+The female platypus has mammary glands without nipples and suckles its young by extruding milk through the pores of the skin on its abdomen to be lapped up by the baby platypus. The male platypus is larger than the female and has two spurs, inside the heel of the hindfeet. Sharp and hollow, the spurs are connected to poison glands and the venom is conveyed right into the wound when the animal strikes home.
-young by extruding milk through the pores of the skin on its abdomen to be
-lapped up by the baby platypus. The male platypus is larger than the female and has two spurs, inside the heel of the hindfeet. Sharp and hollow, the
-spurs are connected to poison glands and the venom is conveyed right into the wound when the animal strikes home.
 There is only one species of platypus and it ranges from Northern
-Queensland to victoria and Tasmania along the easfern section of Australia.
+Queensland to Victoria and Tasmania along the easfern section of Australia. The platypus was often trapped and shot in the early days for their beautiful seallike pelts. But disturbance of their habitat, probably as much as the numbers taken, caused such a reduction of the nervous creatures that they had to be given total protection in Victoria in 1888, and subsequently elsewhere.
-The platypus *as often trapped and shot in the early days for their beautiful
-seallike pelts. But disturbance of their habitat, probably as much as the numbers taken, caused such a reduction of the nervous creatures that they had to be given total protection in Victoria in 18889 and subsequently elsewhere.
 The platypus excavates burrows in river banks with the claw of its forefeet. These burrows may be over 40 feet long and sometimes up to
-feet long. The female digs an individual burrow when it is about to breed.
+feet long. The female digs an individual burrow when it is about to breed. The nest chamber is rounded and covered with grass and leaves. The tunnel too, it is so narrow it probably has the effect of squeezing the moisture from the fur, preventing the bark and leaves in the nest chamber from becoming sodden. Two eggs form the usual clutch but occasionally three are laid. The female broods the eggs for about a week to ten days and when she goes out to feed after the young hatch, also plugs the burrow behind her, presumably against predators like goannas and carpet snakes.
-The nest chamber is rounded and covered with grass and leaves. The tunnel too,
-it is so narrow it probably has the effect of squeezing the moisture from the fur, preventing the bark and leaves in the nest chamber from becoming sodden.
-Two eggs form the usual clutch but occasionally three are laid. The female broods the eggs for about a week to ten days and when she goes out to feed after the young hatch, also plugs the burror.behind her, presumably against predators like goannas and carpet snakes. .
-April 1968
-THE SYDNEY BUSE7L1ICERO	Page 15
 The adolesant emerges from the burrow after about 4 months.
-The platypus' diet usually consists of ya.bbies, earthworms, tadpoles and grubs. I.t consumes an enormous amount of food  usually about 25% of its own weight per day. Apparently they take all their food while swimming blind underwater, scything their rubbery bills from side to side and relying on its extraordinary sensitivity to pick up the slightest water movements caused by yabbios, to recognise the softness to the touch of waterlogged worms, and to fool and avoid the proximity of obstacles like rocks and logs.
-Underwater Reporter.
-DON'T MISS the very rutty trip on the programme. As a matter of fact 100 miles of ruts from Rylestone to Singleton. Somebody saw Don Finch last week buying a roll of spong rubber for his se-1,t (or was it his bike seat?). The route follows fire trails across couttry.
+The platypus' diet usually consists of yabbies, earthworms, tadpoles and grubs. It consumes an enormous amount of food  usually about 25% of its own weight per day. Apparently they take all their food while swimming blind underwater, scything their rubbery bills from side to side and relying on its extraordinary sensitivity to pick up the slightest water movements caused by yabbies, to recognise the softness to the touch of waterlogged worms, and to feel and avoid the proximity of obstacles like rocks and logs.
-DATE  17th, 18th9 19th May.	C01\TTR2.CT  Ross "yborn.
-REVIE"S.
-Rucksack This is a bimonthly magazine oditorod by John Davis and
+**Don't miss** the very rutty trip on the programme. As a matter of fact 100 miles of ruts from Rylestone to Singleton. Somebody saw Don Finch last week buying a roll of spong rubber for his seat (or was it his bike seat?). The route follows fire trails across country.
-Gary Steer. Price 30c per copy. The first edition of this magazine (March) contains many extremely good photos many of which are dramatic and inspiring. The magazincis well laid out with thirtyone pages and twentyeight photos. However, some of the photos are not explained and some do not seem to fit in with the text. The text I feel is not as good as it should be.
+Date:  17th, 18th, 19th May.	Contact:  Ross Wyborn.
+**Reviews**
+**Rucksack** This is a bi-monthly magazine editorod by John Davis and
+Gary Steer. Price 30c per copy. The first edition of this magazine (March) contains many extremely good photos many of which are dramatic and inspiring. The magazine is well laid out with thirty-one pages and twenty-eight photos. However, some of the photos are not explained and some do not seem to fit in with the text. The text I feel is not as good as it should be.
 Ross Wyborn.
 **Day trip**
-Glenbrook Glonbrook Creek  Euroka  Fireworks Ridge  Mt. Portal
-Nepean R Lapstone, 12 miles, medium. Loader John Holly.
+Glenbrook - Glenbrook Creek - Euroka - Fireworks Ridge - Mt. Portal
-A pleasant Sundays walk in the lower Blue Mountains, including a visit
+Nepean R - Lapstone. 12 miles, medium. Leader John Holly.\\
-to Nepoan River, where the hardy types might like to take a dip. Any prospectivos who'might need a few lessons in mapping should attend, as John Holly is notoitious for making the prospective member do the mapping. The train leaves Central Station at 8.20 a.m. (buy tickets to Glenbrook).
+A pleasant Sundays walk in the lower Blue Mountains, including a visit to Nepean River, where the hardy types might like to take a dip. Any prospectivos who might need a few lessons in mapping should attend, as John Holly is notorious for making the prospective member do the mapping. The train leaves Central Station at 8.20 a.m. (buy tickets to Glenbrook).
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