 Reflecting on the strange animals of the country, he thought that an unbeliever "might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been [at] work; their object however has been the same & certainly the end in each case is complete'," yet an antlion he was watching was very similar to its European counterpart.That evening he saw the even stranger platypus and noticed that its bill was soft, unlike the preserved specimens he had seen.Aboriginal stories that they laid eggs were believed by few Europeans.