NATURE’S CURIOSITIES.—These strange animals were among the many interesting subjects upon which the Swedish photographer, Sven Gillsater, used his cameras during travels from Australia to Bali which took in the island of Komoda, famous for its "dragons." Sven Gillsater gives a literary and pictorial record of his travels in "We Ended In Bali," published by Allen and Unwin. At the top, above, is that strange mammal, the platypus. A crayfish has escaped the swimming platypus, which has lids over its eyes in the water and finds its way by means of its sensitive bill. Below it is the echidna which, as a curiosity of nature, almost equals the platypus. It has nothing in common with the porcupine or hedgehog, Which it resembles, except its spines. The echidna is a paradox—an egg-laying mammal which is also a marsupial during a short period of its existence. At top right is the pangolin, the Javanese ant-eater, whose protective armour is a covering of hard shell arranged in layers like the scales on a fir cone. The creature of daunting appearance at bottom right is the spine-covered lizard science has aptly named “Moloch horridus.”

Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 13 May 1961, Page 3

NATURE’S CURIOSITIES.—These strange animals were among the many interesting subjects upon which the Swedish photographer, Sven Gillsater, used his cameras during travels from Australia to Bali which took in the island of Komoda, famous for its "dragons." Sven Gillsater gives a literary and pictorial record of his travels in "We Ended In Bali," published by Allen and Unwin. At the top, above, is that strange mammal, the platypus. A crayfish has escaped the swimming platypus, which has lids over its eyes in the water and finds its way by means of its sensitive bill. Below it is the echidna which, as a curiosity of nature, almost equals the platypus. It has nothing in common with the porcupine or hedgehog, Which it resembles, except its spines. The echidna is a paradox—an egg-laying mammal which is also a marsupial during a short period of its existence. At top right is the pangolin, the Javanese ant-eater, whose protective armour is a covering of hard shell arranged in layers like the scales on a fir cone. The creature of daunting appearance at bottom right is the spine-covered lizard science has aptly named “Moloch horridus.”