| Show Walking Toothpick Ball Balls BallIs BallIs Is s Really an Eater AntEater Ant Eater NEW YORK You You meet such interesting in in- animals Theres There's a walking ball of tooth- tooth toothpicks toothpicks picks that eats ants a kangaroo that hat plays Tarzan the cuscus band- band bandicoot bandicoot coot flying mice and the bash- bash bashful bashful ful ul crocodile For F good measure there are green ants and a tree that stings you rou Theres There's the obliging carpet snake nake that can help in good house- house housekeeping housekeeping keeping the nasty death adder and nastier or big boss of nasty snakes You can rub elbows with this frightful rightful menagerie on the Cape York peninsula of northeast Aus- Aus ralia Better yet you can inspect them hem nicely dead and harmless at qt the American museum of natural nat nat- natural natural ural history Scores of these old fellows were just brought back by the 1948 1946 Arch Arch- Archbold bold Cape York expedition Cape York is a square mile area full of strange plants and animals and up to now it hasn't been ex ex- explored explored ex- ex explored much by scientists The walking ball of toothpicks is the spiny anteater a distant cou cou- cousin cousin cousin sin of the duck-billed duck platypus This anteater is a survivor of a kind of mammal that maybe was common 60 to 70 million years ago |
