Australia.

AUSTRALIA :      SWAP CARDS ONLY :

 Top Left card :  Short Beaked Echidna.:    Top Right Card :  Spectacled Flying Fox.

Bottom Left Card : Lemuroid Ringtail Possum : Bottom Right Card  : Bennetts Tree Kangaroo

 These wildlife cards area most recent released in Cairns Queensland  4870. on the 21 st January 2020.

Australia

Homebush .N.S.W. AUSTRALIA.

 This is a lovely Australian card showing the always loveable "Echidna" our spiny anteater but a lot different than most.. I have written up about this extremely amazing monotreme on another card..This is a first day postal release in ( Homebush ) N.SW. and is a maxi card..just love the stamp..

Australia

Sydney : N.S.W.  AUSTRALIA.:
A great card showing this amazing Australian wildlife wonder.: The Platypus is a very hard animal to see in the wild and are extremely elusive..they are an animal that has caused early explorers to shake their head as it is such an unusual animal to see...A nice "first day release  in Homebush Maxi card"

Australia.

THE PLATYPUS ( Ornithorhynchus Anatinus )

AUSTRALIA.:

 Any series of "Australian Native Animals" could not be complete without including this, the most unique  mammal of them all. Also known, or referred to, as "The Duck Billed Platypus" it is a semi-aquatic egg laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia and Tasmania togeather with the four species of Echidna it is one of five "extant"series Monotremes,, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.This is the sole living member of its family though a number of related species have been found in the fossil records. The unusual appearance of this Egg laying, Duck billed, Beaver tailed, Otter footed mammal baffled  European naturalists and scientists when they first encountered it with some considering it to be an elaborate hoax. This is one of the few Venomous mammals, as the male has a spur on the hind foot that delivers a venom capable of causing severe pain. The Platypus is the "Animal Emblem" of the State of New South Wales and is also on the reverse side of the 20 cent coin.