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{SPEAKER name="Lisa Chickering "}
Well, with all these people putting on the dog— [[LAUGHTER]] —in Austria, you're libel to find anything. [[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]]

[00:48:49]
Thank you very much. And now after the intermission, Jeanne Porterfield will be back to take you on the second half of the trip. And this is where it gets very cold and snowy, so this is the time to bundle up.

[00:49:02]
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[00:49:21]
{SPEAKER name="UNKNOWN SPEAKER - UNRELATED TOPIC"}
They are the only examples of egg-laying mammals to be found in the entire world. And the duck-bill [[duck-billed]] platypus is the missing link. He is the missing link between cold-blooded reptiles and warm-blooded mammals, discovered for the first time in a backwater of the Hawkesbury River at the end of the 18th century.

[00:49:43]
This one is about 20 inches in length. About a third to a quarter of that length is made up of the tail. Very soft, wonderful fur on the body and coarse bristles on the tail. And ladies and gentlemen, notice the spurs that he has on his back legs— they are connected by ducts to poison glands. The only example of venom in the entire mammal order. And during the breeding season, they'll, the [[mutters]] poison is very virulent.

[00:50:12]
Well, he's a ridiculous looking creature. He eats half of his own weight daily in earthworms and he also enjoys crayfish. When they sent a couple of them to the Bronx Zoo 18 months ago, it was a tremendous problem to have enough earthworms to keep- [[cut off]]