Kevin Budden grew up in the Sydney suburb of Randwick. He was fascinated by snakes, which he kept in a pit in his parents’ backyard. He had been bitten many times while catching and handling them, (five times in a single year) but this did not deter
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In the midst of WWII, British P.M. Winston Churchill, decided he would like to have – a live platypus! 😨 After Australia’s Prime Minister John Curtin gave his assent, naturalist David Fleay was given the task of preparing a young male and organizing its voyage to England
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