dlnash@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Donald L. Nash) (09/27/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH LINE-EATER FOOD *** > How about the Duck Billed Platypus (aka Onithoryncus Anitinus (spelling?)) > for the official net.bizarre animal. > > It is the *ONLY* egg-laying mammal in existence. In lives in Australia. > It lays a leather egg. It suckles its young like a mammal. It has a Bill > (mouth) like a duck and lives in the water. But the duck billed platypus is not the only egg-laying mammal in existence. There is also the spiny (or is it spiney) anteater. Both these animals are native to Australia and both lay leather eggs. It has been postulated that these two creatures were Mother Nature's first try at making mammals and that she didn't quite get it right. Don Nash Can't post my UUCP address 'cause I don't know it yet (I'm new here). By the way, my vote for Official Animal goes to the character Animal from The Muppet Show.