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The first Ornithorhynchus
Confused early thinkers.
They said, ‘Oh good lord,
It’s an obvious fraud!
Somebody has stuck
The front end of a duck
(With the skill of a weaver)
To part of a beaver.
It’s no less a fake
Than the mermaids they make
From a fish and an ape-
A rediculous jape!

We now know it’s real
Though i can’t help but feel
That from tail tip to muzzle,
It is still a puzzle.

R. Strahan, The Incomplete Book of Australian Mamals