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adapted adult animal dives Australia average bank beaver behaviour bill biologists biology birds body temperature brain breeding season CADDIS FLY captivity captured caught changes class Mammalia cloaca cold common name Cooktown cope crocodiles dams dentary diagram shows drought echidna eggs environment epipubic bones EUTHERIAN feeding feet FIGURE floods FLY LARVAE fossil GUARD HAIRS habitats haemoglobin hatching incubation individuals insulation invertebrate juvenile platypuses kangaroo lactation lactation season large number LARVAE layer of air leave the nesting length less live Macropus Male platypuses Mammalia Mammalia mammals marked marsupials mating Mervyn Griffiths metabolism Monotremata monotremes months naturalists nesting burrows normal Obdurodon Obdurodon insignis Ornithorhynchidae oxygen oxygen-carrying capacity period platypus populations pools pouch predation recaptured red blood cells red kangaroo reptiles skin South Wales species spring spurs stage suggested surface swimming thought Thredbo River trout underside upper Shoalhaven River urinogenital sinus uteri uterus venom glands ventral water rat weight wild young platypuses