WORMS FOR PLATYPUSES
Problem for director . David Fleay, of Healesville sanctuarv, near Melbourne, is.to find SSUO fat worms daily for the 11 platypuses there — 800 apiece, states a ilelbourne message. ilr. Fleay has his owji wormery, but even tlien is foreed to rely on the ert'orts of small boys who get 2s Od a lb. for worms. From timo to timo SUvS are published in Melboufne jtapers urging small boys to' get busy with tlie family mattock. Xow we know why Mr. Parrv bamied the export of one kiwi egg in exchange For one platypus!
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 2
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95WORMS FOR PLATYPUSES Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 2
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