duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) Title: Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine kunde des Tierreichs
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Alfred Edmund Brehm, 1829-1884; Otto L Zur Strassen, 1869-; Ludwig Heck, 1860-; Friedrich Hempelmann, 1878-; Richard Heymons, 1867-; Franz Werner, b. 1867; William Marshall, 1845-; Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig
Subjects: Zoology; Animal behavior
Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/brehmstierlebena10breh/#page/n118/mode/1up
Author Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884;
Zur Strassen, Otto L., 1869-; Heck, Ludwig, 1860-; Hempelmann, Friedrich, 1878-; Heymons, Richard, 1867-; Werner, Franz, b. 1867; Marshall, William, 1845-;
Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brehms_Tierleben._Allgemeine_kunde_des_Tierreichs_(1911)_(20413855495).jpg
The platypus or duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is one of the extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.
