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{SPEAKER name="UNKNOWN SPEAKER 1"}
—during the journey. Now he has a heavy, reptile-like body, but he moves through the water with the greatest of ease.

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And let's watch him now as he swims about in his tank— the very rare, duck-bill [[duck-billed]] platypus.

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He's got frog-man appendages there on the front; those great bulbous eyes; his meal, uh, crayfish meal, is gonna be dropped in, in a moment.

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{SPEAKER name="UNKNOWN SPEAKER 2"}
There you go, sir.

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[[NOISE]]

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{SPEAKER name="UNKNOWN SPEAKER 1"}
—crayfish, he's got him. And I hate to say it, but his table manners are terrible.

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Look at the frog-man [[BACKGROUND VOICE]] appendages, that he's got.

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The duck-bill [[duck-billed]] platypus.

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[[NOISE]] And now, ladies and gentleman, the creatures that made the crossword puzzle [[INAUDIBLE]]: the emu—

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e-m-u. And those of you who've wrestled with that word over the years I'm sure will be glad to see at last just what it represents. Well, they're fairly similar to ostriches.

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They're found only in Australia. They move with the greatest of ease and speed across the country and they have the most voracious appetite. And they're the most curious birds that you could imagine.

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I was minding my own business and was reading, "What Bird is That?", when one of them looked over my shoulder and I heard him say: that's for the birds. I felt almost as if I had stepped out of the pages of 'Alice in Wonderland'.

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And if you think it's very pleasant to be minding your own business and to be reading about Australia when you have something like that looming in on you, you have another thought coming.

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But this is a land of remarkable fauna and certainly among the most curious of them all are the emus. I had a loaf of bread that was hidden there that was an answer to it and you really couldn't blame them since they're always hungry. And with that thought in mind, let us now have a—