Platypus

The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World

By: Ann Moyal

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Paperback | 29 October 2004

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When the first platypus specimen reached England from Australia in 1799, the scientific community claimed that it was a hoax. On closer investigation, dubious European naturalists eventually declared it to be real, though in an age obsessed with classification, the category-defying platypus sparked heated debates across Europe for a century. In Platypus, Ann Moyal provides a unique biography of one of the world's most famously strange creatures and tells the incredible story of how it became the focus of the great scientific debates of the nineteenth century. Eloquent and concise, Platypus uncovers the earliest theories and latest discoveries about this delightfully odd member of the animal kingdom.

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Non-Fiction Nature & The Natural World Wildlife in General Wildlife & Mammals Religion & Beliefs Religion Philosophy of Religion Nature & Existence of God Science Science in General History of Science Biology, Life Sciences

Zoology & Animal Sciences Zoology & Vertebrates Zoology & Mammals Marsupials & Monotremes Popular Science

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. xi
'This Highly Interesting Novelty'	p. 1
The Frenchmen's Gaze	p. 19
Marshalling the Animals	p. 31
The Wrangling Scientists	p. 48
The Land of Contrarieties	p. 61
The First Hard Look	p. 74
The Paper War	p. 89
Darwin's Platypus	p. 102
To the Antipodes	p. 115
The Clash of Titans	p. 130
Solving the Mystery	p. 141
The New Men	p. 158
'The Platypus Man'	p. 167
The Platypus Goes to War	p. 180
'The Animal of All Time'	p. 186
Glossary	p. 206
A Word on Sources	p. 209
Illustrations	p. 215
Index	p. 219
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