About the Poem

It's part riddle, and part poem. Can you unravel the DBP's true identity? No Googling allowed!

Category

Animal Poems

Style

Short rhyming poem

Length

4 lines

Key Stage

KS1, KS2, KS3

Author

Patrick Winstanley

The DBP

If I tell you the ornithorhyncus
Is the famous egg-laying platypus
You'll not for a moment be thunder struck
As it's the platypus billed as a duck

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