Taxidermy: Duck-Billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), by Bradleys Taxidermy Services, 71 Harwood Street, Darwen, Lancashire, full mount laid amongst a riverbed setting with beak raised, amidst pebbles reeds and weeds, set against a green wash painted back board, enclosed within a period style ebonised three-glass display case 57.5cm by 13cm by 29cm

The platypus, often referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young