Citations with the tag: PLATYPUS
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- The puzzling platypus.
Walsh, K. // Ranger Rick; May92, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p40Gives information about platypuses. Describes the Warrawong Sanctuary in South Australia created to protect platypuses by Dr. John Wamsley. How they find food; Daily habits of; Body part descriptions; Nesting burrows; Baby platypuses.
- My great platypus hunt down under, or how I met Bill.
Kastner, Joseph // Smithsonian; Sep93, Vol. 24 Issue 6, p152No abstract available.
- Spin fact.
Kastner, Joseph // National Geographic World; Oct95, Issue 242, p34Presents information on the platypus of Australia. Combination of mammalian and avian characteristics.
- Platypus puzzles.
Kastner, Joseph // Australian Geographic; Jul-Sep97, Issue 47, p10Comments on the discovery of the Australian platypus living in streams near city areas in Australia. Research into how the animals has managed to live in the polluted city.
- Able to sense electrical fields.
Kastner, Joseph // Newsweek; 2/17/86, Vol. 107 Issue 7, p78The platypus, with its thick fur, webbed forefeet and duck-like bill, can sense electrical fields--the first higher vertebrate found to have that ability.
- Good vibrations.
Hale, Janet A. // Highlights for Children; Jan94, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p5Reveals some `shocking' news about Australia's strangest creature, the platypus. Scientists' discovery that a platypus' bill has electric-sensing cells that can detect electrical currents created by the flicking tails of its favorite food, crayfish (yabbies); Why the platypus moves its bill...
- Platypus polemic.
Hale, Janet A. // New Scientist; 6/26/93, Vol. 138 Issue 1879, p11Reports on the dispute among Australian biologists on a plan to lend two platypuses to Japan. Disagreement on whether the two will survive the experience; Display at an international exhibition in Tokyo in 1996; Loan as the first time in nearly 60 years that the animal is exported; Concern of...
- Metropolitan monotremes.
Serena, Melody // Nature Australia; Spring96, Vol. 25 Issue 6, p28Focuses on platypuses inhabiting the rivers and creeks of the big cities in Australia. How platypus biologists conduct their studies; Information about urban platypuses being gathered; Potential clues to platypus' health.
- Waiting for at least one platypus.
Ritchie, Elisavietta // Christian Science Monitor; 5/5/97, Vol. 89 Issue 111, p17Presents an individual's account of waiting to see a Duckbill Platypus. Description of the mammal.
- Read More.
Ritchie, Elisavietta // Platypus: A Century-long Mystery; 2009, p31The article lists several books related to platypus including "The Platypus: What Is It? Ringwood," by Jo Brice, "The Puzzle of the Platypus: And Other Explorations of Science in Action," by Jack Myers, and "Platypus," by Joan Short, Jack Green and Bettina Bird.
- Index.
Ritchie, Elisavietta // Platypus: A Century-long Mystery; 2009, p32A subject index of the book "Platypus: A Century-Long Mystery" is presented.
- Platypus pursuits.
Serena, Melody // Nature Australia; Spring95, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p54Provides information on the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Physical characteristics and traits; Use of a radio-tag to track retiring and nocturnal habits; Tendency of platypus to be solitary, with females raising offsprings without help from males; Habitat. INSETS: Eggstraordinary...
- Odd DUCK.
Fraser, Stephen // Current Science; 3/18/2005, Vol. 90 Issue 13, p4Presents information on platypus.
- The Bits-and-Pieces Platypus.
Gershator, Phillis // Ladybug; Apr2000, Vol. 10 Issue 8, p26Provides information on the platypus, a furry animal found only in Australia.
- Hey baby, what's your name?
Gershator, Phillis // Australian Geographic; Jul-Sep99, Issue 55, p120Reports on the selection of a name for a baby platypus by the students of the Gap Community Kindergarten in Brisbane, Queensland. Suggestion box for naming the baby platypus; Information on the selected name for the baby platypus.
- THE PLATYPUS.
Myers, Jack // Highlights for Children; Jun2002, Vol. 57 Issue 6, p8Provides information on platypus, a four-footed animal that lives in rivers near the eastern coast of Australia.
- Prehistoric platypus fits the bill.
Archer, Michael // Australian Geographic; Apr-Jun95, Issue 38, p86Focuses on the discovery of platypus fossils in the Patagonian landscape in southern Argentina which may provide clues to the ancestors of the Australian species. Topographic description; Preparations; Equipment used; Characteristics of the fossils; Comparisons. INSET: Is the platypus doomed?..
- A parade of prehistoric platypuses.
Archer, Michael // Australian Geographic; Apr-Jun95, Issue 38, p96Discusses the evolution of the duck-billed platypus. Species found in Australia; Characteristics; Archeologic discoveries; Comparisons.
- Platypus disease may be linked to cattle.
Archer, Michael // Australian Geographic; Oct-Dec2002, Issue 68, p12Presents the results of a study conducted by Leonardo Loewenstein of University of Sydney in New South Wales about the link of platypus disease to cattle. Percentage of platypuses studied carrying the antibodies Leptospira hardjo; Health effects of the antibody.
- 6 OF THE BEST Platypus spots.
Archer, Michael // Australian Geographic; Jan-Mar2009, Issue 93, p46The article provides information on the best places and spots to see the platypuses in Australia. An overview of several best places where platypuses resided are highlighted which include Hidden Valley Cabins in Queensland, Nymboida River and Bombala in New South Wales (NSW) and the Mountain...
- The platypus put in its place.
Penny, Davis; Hasegawa, Masami // Nature; 6/5/1997, Vol. 387 Issue 6633, p549Announces that monotremes are placed within other mammals specifically on the lineage leading to the marsupials. The debate about the duck-billed platypus, an egg-laying mammal; Study published by Janke and colleagues; Theory by Richard Owen, a leading nineteenth-century anatomist, about the...
- Paradoxes of the platypus.
Hoffman, E.; Parer, D. // International Wildlife; Jan/Feb90, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p18Discusses the duckbilled platypus, an egg-laying, venomous Australian mammal with a bill that can receive electrical signals, and which lived long before the Age of Mammals. It has many unique features, and belongs to the mammalian order of Monotremata.
- Platypus sting spurs on painkiller hunt.
Michael, A. // New Scientist; 01/03/98, Vol. 157 Issue 2115, p6Comments on the possible use of the toxin found in the spurs of the duck-billed platypus in the development of a pain killer for humans. Details on the duck-billed platypus; Reference to research by Rosemary Martin of the Australian National University; Effect of the platypus' toxins on humans.
- Platypus in peril.
Fisher, Andrew // Bulletin with Newsweek; 10/11/94, Vol. 116 Issue 5941, p50Reports on the a potentially fatal disease threatening the survival of the platypus in Australia. Danger posed by the fungus mucor amphibiorum on platypus population; Mode of infection of the disease; Study being conducted to track the spread of the fungus.
- Penelope's Secret.
Fisher, Andrew // Time; 11/16/1953, Vol. 62 Issue 20, p69The article reports on the efforts by curators of the Bronx Zoo in New York City in breeding platypuses, which are native to Australia. The reproduction of platypuses in captivity pose challenges, as they are not quite mammals. The zoo's optimism in breeding platypuses was doused when its female...
- Bibliography.
Fisher, Andrew // Platypus: A Century-long Mystery; 2009, p31The sources cited within this book are presented including "Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World," by Ann Moyal, "Duck-Billed Platypus: Australia's Urban Oddity," by Melody Serena.
- Learn More Online.
Fisher, Andrew // Platypus: A Century-long Mystery; 2009, p31The article reviews the web site about platypus at www.bearportpublishing.com/UncommonAnimals.
- The platypus and the kingfisher.
G.H.; Hickey, Georgina // Nature Australia; Spring95, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p18Focuses on the feeding association of the platypus and Azure kingfishers. Birds' watching from a distance as platypus dove; Birds' diving into disturbed area and come up with fish after platypus surfaced; Feeding association as a commensal relationship where one of the species benefited and the...
- A storm in the platypus brain.
K.McG.; Hickey, Georgina // Nature Australia; Autumn99, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p13Focuses on the results of a study on the hunting behavior of the platypus. Sensory receptors found at the bill of the platypus; Use of modern staining techniques to determine how the platypus process information about a potential prey.
- A monotreme about town.
Faye, Denis // Ecos; Apr-Jun99, Issue 99, p3Reports that the platypus like to cruise around, according to a study of their habitat by the Australian Platypus Conservation. Habitat requirements of the animals in urban waterways; Preference for building burrows in sections of rivers with overhanging vegetation and undercut banks.
- Australia's spiny anteater.
Faye, Denis // International Wildlife; Nov/Dec84, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p30The species was assigned to an order of mammals called the Monotremes, which it shares with the only other egg-laying mammal, the platypus.
- Book Reviews.
Gates, Barbara T. // Victorian Studies; Summer98, Vol. 41 Issue 4, p672Reviews the book `The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination,' by Harriet Ritvo.
- Platypus Study Answers Questions About Gene Imprinting.
Dunn, F.B. // JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute; 9/19/2001, Vol. 93 Issue 18, p1370Reports the contributions of the platypus study on inquiries on gene imprinting. Implications of cancer on human cloning; Discovery of the phenomenon of gene imprinting; Involvement of cloning in inflammatory consequence of imprinting.
- Reviews.
Patterson, Bruce D. // Journal of Mammalogy; May94, Vol. 75 Issue 2, p559Reviews the book `Platypus and Echidnas,' by M.L. Augee.
- Duckbill Dreamers.
Westrup, Hugh // Current Science; 11/6/98, Vol. 84 Issue 5, p4Reports that platypuses provide scientists with clues as to why people sleep. Brain activity exhibited by platypuses similar to that of people when they dream; Analysis of brain waves of the animals; Reason for rapid eye movements in sleeping people.
- Platypus Venom Spurs Pain Research.
Westrup, Hugh // Current Science; 11/6/98, Vol. 84 Issue 5, p5Reports that platypuses have a poisonous spur on each hind leg that they use to defend themselves. Australian scientists' research on platypus venom in correlation with pain response in people.
- Platypus dreams.
Westrup, Hugh // Discover; Mar98, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p23Reports on a study on the presence of the rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep in platypus. Physiological occurrences during REM; Association of REM with dreaming.
- Alternative divisions.
Cartmill, Matt // Natural History; Oct97, Vol. 106 Issue 8, p12Reviews the book `The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination,' by Harriet Ritvo.
- Victoria.
Bright, Kate // Wildlife Australia; Summer2002, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p44Features the Platypus care project in Victoria. Establishment of the status of the animal on a catchment-by-catchment basis; Sources of funding for the project; Determination of the health of animal population.
- Stepping STONES.
Meyer, Tim // Wildlife Australia; Winter2003, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p5Reports on the launch of the Platypus Care project by the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland in collaboration with the Australian Platypus Conservancy. Allocation of resources; Expectations on how the project will improve the quality of the environment.
- A Duckbill Out of Water.
Paul, Gregory S. // Natural History; Apr87, Vol. 96 Issue 4, p4Presents a letter to the editors of 'Natural History' with regard to the structure and development of the duckbill.
- MONOTREMES.
Dalgleish, Sharon // Mini Mammals; 2003, p10Mammals that lay eggs are called monotremes. They have reptilelike features of primitive mammals. Their body temperature is lower than the other mammals. Platypuses and echidnas are egg-laying mammals.
- Duck-billed treasures.
Pfitzner, Christine // Wildlife Australia; Winter2008, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p8The article reports on the platypus in Queensland during winter. Platypus are ready to mate during winter. They eat crustaceans and worms on the river bottom and grind their food on the river surface through their horny-plated bill. They also come ashore to have a scratch or to rest and look...
- Strange mammals.
Farndon, John // Wild Animals; 2003, p60Strange mammals like the duck-billed platypus and the echidnas live in Australia and are the only monotremes, mammals that lay eggs. Platypuses hatch from eggs in a river-bank burrow. After a female echidna lays her single egg, she keeps it in a pouch on her body until it hatches. The...
- Duck-billed platypus had a South American cousin.
Thwaites, Tim // New Scientist; 8/24/91, Vol. 131 Issue 1783, p13Reports on the discovery of a tooth from an ancient platypus in Patagonia by a team of Argentinian paleontologists, led by Rosendo Pascual of the National University of La Plata. Evidence of a monotreme living outside Australia and New Guinea; Support of the theory that Australia and South...
- A home fit for platypuses?
Dayton, Leigh // New Scientist; 3/2/91, Vol. 129 Issue 1758, p14Reports on proposals in 1991 for zoos in Great Britain to house platypuses in new aquarium-style displays and to export the animals in zoos abroad. Mortality rate among platypuses kept in zoos within a year of capture; Some success achieved by zoos in breeding platypuses in captivity;...
- Duck-billed drugs.
Dayton, Leigh // Australian Geographic; Apr-Jun2000, Issue 58, p120Presents information on the discovery of venom in the hind legs of male platypus ducks. Possible uses of the platypus venom; Research done on the venom and its components.
- Trapping platypus.
Dayton, Leigh // Australian Geographic; Jan-Mar2011, Issue 101, p163The article offers information on the research of abundance and distribution of platypus in Brisbane, Queensland by researcher Sean Fitzgibbon.
- Science & technology.
Lester, Toby // Wilson Quarterly; Autumn97, Vol. 21 Issue 4, p107Reviews the book `The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination,' by Harriet Rivto.
- Where do I fit?
Lester, Toby // New Scientist; 12/06/97, Vol. 156 Issue 2111, p45Reviews the book `The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination,' by Harriet Ritvo.
