The platypus ( " Ornithorhynchus anatinus " ) once resided in the creek pond near Cleveland-Redland Bay Road, but increased turbidity and lessening water quality has meant the animal has not been sighted for some years.
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He was also one of the first scientists to study the anatomy of the platypus, assigning the scientific name " Ornithorhynchus paradoxus " to the animal, being unaware George Shaw had already given it the name " Platypus anatinus ".
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Platypus ( " Ornithorhynchus anatinus " ) are often seen at the viewing platform at Broken River which is the most visited location in the park, They have an unusual foraging behaviour and are the only mammal known to use electrolocation for detecting prey.
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Maturin and Martin are keen to see a living duck-billed platypus ( " Ornithorhynchus paradoxus " ), and finally do, at the end of the novel, learning what is common knowledge there, that the male of the species has a poisonous sting.
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In July 1857, Darwin commented to Hooker, " Owen's is a grand Paper; but I cannot swallow Man making a division as distinct from a Chimpanzee, as an ornithorhynchus from a Horse : I wonder what a Chimpanzee wd . say to this ? ".
