Platypus Matters The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

Free Download Jack Ashby, "Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals"
English | ISBN: 0226833216 | 2024 | 400 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Scientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia’s wonderfully unique mammals-and how our perceptions impact their future.

Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs, and can detect electricity. Or a wombat: Their teeth never stop growing, they poop cubes, and they defend themselves with reinforced rears. And what about antechinuses-tiny marsupial carnivores whose males don’t see their first birthday, as their frenzied sex lives take so much energy that their immune systems fail? Platypuses, possums, wombats, echidnas, devils, kangaroos, quolls, dibblers, dunnarts, kowaris: Australia has some truly astonishing mammals, with incredible, unfamiliar features. But how does the world regard these creatures? And what does that mean for their conservation?
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