Penelope the Platypus

the story of penelope, the “brazen hussy”[1] and “saucy female who like[s] to keep a male on a string” [2]
gather & disperse
1953 Nov 10 25-222-04 

THE SAD STORY OF PENELOPE PLATYPUS The female platypus of New York's Bronx Zoo, whom everyone thought had mothered the first of her species ever born outside Australia, is discovered not to be a mama after all!