He doesn’t have a name, but the young duck-billed platypus should probably be called Stinky if he ends up going to a zoo (the plan is to release him into the Lower Nepean River catchment).  That’s because it took a crew of 27 men some six hours to free the juvenile platypus from within the confines of a sewer pipe at the Penrith Sewage Treatment Plant near Sydney, Australia.  Fortunately, both the platypus and the sewer pipe are okay, if a bit shaken up.

Apparently, platypus sightings in Sydney are pretty rare.  Since I’m an American, I assumed they just ran wild over there like raccoons do here, but I guess not.  The crew who spotted the beast didn’t even know it was a platypus at first; they’d mistaken it for an otter!  I guess they couldn’t see his distinctive duck bill since, you know, he was caught in a poop chute.  Still, as rare as it is, that’s probably one of the least unusual things pulled from sewers.

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