Platypuses of New York City

[corvi]

"Historic Newsreel David Fleay platypuses New York 1947" (Watch on YouTube)

This is some excellently goofy old news footage about three platypuses, Betty, Penelope, and Cecil, brought to the Bronx Zoo in 1947. Betty died shortly thereafter, but Cecil and Penelope paired up and had a bunch of whatever passes for sweet lovin' in weird venomous duckbeaver electro-beasts. In 1957, gravid Penelope escaped from her enclosure and was never seen again, and platypuses are no longer seen in American zoos.

All I want out of life (today) is for some urban fantasy set in New York City to feature PLATYPUSES ROAMING THE SEWERS OF NEW YORK CITY. Or wereplatypuses, ghost platypuses, vampire platypuses, whatever; I'm not picky.

Comments

[wordweaverlynn]

They would seem to be ideally adapted to life in the sewers.

[spiralsheep]

There is wereplatypus fanfic and fanart (I think they might call them werepus?) but not afaik set in New York. There is also a notorious romance novel in which the love interest is a werehedgehog biker. ;-P

I can only offer you drop bears, ARGHHH!

[corvi]

Those drop bears are pretty great!
But how about this flatbear?