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 Posted: 04/21/05 6:42 pm ::: Giant platypus seen in Japan |
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Plush-platypus-fits-the-bill/2005/04/21/1114028487249.html
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Move over, Ian Thorpe. A well-upholstered 12-metre platypus is the new tourism torpedo. And Australia's image in Japan may never be the same again.
The attention-grabber at Australia's $34 million World Expo pavilion, the platypus was chosen mainly because it was a break from the usual koala and kangaroo. And Japan is smitten.
On a visit to the pavilion yesterday the Prime Minister, John Howard, approached the giant animal gingerly, but other visitors have been more game: they walk straight up and pat it or sit on it.
Whether its best side is its bill or its tail has Japan, a nation of photographers, flummoxed.
Getting the whole thing in a single frame is nearly impossible.
And the biggest question, "What does it taste like?" can never be answered.
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