As the mystery of the dead Coachnos Winston Churchill was finally resolved

In 1943, the disguised ship went from Australia to England, which was transported by Top Secret Cargo – the only young collar.

A rare monate was named after its future owner, UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, rare monosa was an unprecedented gift from a country that desperately tried to benefit when the Second World War expanded into the Pacific and arrived at his threshold.

But the weekend from Winston’s arrival, when the war was raging in the seas around him, the remote was found dead in the water of his specially made “ducklings”.

Fearing a potential diplomatic incident, Winston’s death – along with its existence – was interpreted under the carpet.

It was preserved, stuffed and quietly postponed to the office of his name, with rumors that he died from the Nazi Podbucha, caused by the Nazis-Palogan, gently whispered on the air.

The mystery of the one who or something really killed him has been shying away from the world – so far.

The world has always been fascinated by the Kachkinos. Mamming with eggs with the face and legs of the duck, the body -shaped body and the inspired tail, many believed that the creature was a complex hoax; Taxiderma’s trick.

For Churchill, an avid collector of rare and exotic animals, the intrigue of Kachnyos made it more desperate to have one or six – for his menagery.

And in 1943 he said as much as Australian Foreign Minister, DOC “DOC” Evatt.

In the eyes of the Evote, the fact that his country banned the export of creatures – or that they were sad to translate, and no one ever survived a journey that is long – were just problems to overcome.

Australia was increasingly felt abandoned by the Motherland, when the Japanese were approaching and closer – and if the site of collapse helps Churchill to respond more profitably to the requests of support, then it would be.

Environmentalist David Fli – who was asked to help in the mission – was less amenable.

“Imagine that any person who is responsible with humanity on a stand in Europe and Asia, finding time to even think, not to mention that one and a half dozen ducklings,” he wrote in his book of the 1980s.

On the account of Mr. Flay he managed to talk to politicians from six bolt to one, and young Winston was captured from the river near Melbourne.

A complex coloser was built for it with a covered with hay and fresh Australian water; A menu of 50,000 worms and ducks with egg custard was prepared; And he was on duty to wait for all his needs for 45-day swimming.

Across the Pacific Ocean, across Panama -Canal and the Atlantic Ocean, Winston went – before the tragedy struck.

In a letter to Evote Churchill stated that he had been “upset” to report that he was “kind” sent to him, died in the last section of the journey.

“His loss is a great disappointment for me,” he said.

Mission failure for many years has been kept secret to avoid any public resonance. But in the end, Winston’s death reports will jump into the newspapers. The ship collided with a German boat, they said, and Kaczanis was shaken to death among the blasts.

“A small animal equipped with a nervous, super sensitive bill capable of detecting even delicate mosquito movements on the flow in the darkness of the night can not hope to cope with man-made exquisite conveniences as rigid explosions,” Mr. Fli wrote.

“It was so obvious that, but for the misfortunes of the war, a thin, flowering, healthy little colossal, he would create a story to be the first number to reside in England.”

“This is a tempting story, isn’t it?” Harrison Croft, a student -Dist of science, tells the BBC.

But this is one that has long caused suspicion.

And so last year g -nroft He went on his own journey: search for truth.

A university student Monash, who accesses archives in the Canberra and London, found a bunch of records from the ship’s crew, including interviews with a nomad on duty, accused of keeping Winston alive.

“They made some posthumous, and he was very specific. He was very sure that there was no explosion, that everything was very calm and quiet on board,” says Mr. Croft.

Another Sydney team also looked at Winston’s life. David Fli’s personal collection was handed over to the Australian Museum, and staff across the building knew desperately if there were answers.

“Would you go to the elevators, and some doctors from the Mammology … (B)” What archival evidence is Winston died of charging detonation?

“This is what has long been intrigued by people.”

With the help of a team of trainees at the University of Sydney, they started digitizing all the records of the flays, trying to find out about it.

Even in the 1940s, people knew that the collapse were voracious eaters. The legend of the appetite of the species was so great that the UK authorities made a statement by offering to pay young boys to catch the worms and deliver them to feed Winston on arrival.

In the magazine of the duty officer, the trainees found evidence that his rations on the way diminished when some worms began to die.

But it was the water and air temperature, which was marked at 8am and 6pm every day, and he held the key to solving mystery.

These indications were made at two cool points a day, and yet, when the ship crossed the equator for about a week, the fixed temperatures rose far beyond 27C – what we know is a safe threshold for fossils in a ditch.

With the benefit of the back review – and the additional 80 -year scientific research – the Sydney University team determined that Winston was essentially cooked alive.

Although they cannot finally turn off the history of submarines, they say that the impact only long temperatures would only be enough to kill Winston.

“It’s easier to just move the guilt to the Germans, not say that we did not feed it enough, otherwise we did not adjust its temperature correctly,” says BBC Evan Kowen.

“The story depends entirely on who tells the story,” Paul adds.

In order not to dissuade his initial attempt by the Kalasate diplomacy, Australia will try again in 1947.

The high achievement of the successful breeding of Kachkinos in captivity for the first time – a feat that will not be repeated for another 50 years – Mr. Fli persuaded the Australian government to allow Bronx zoo to have three creatures seeking to deepen US ties.

Unlike Winston’s secret journey across the Pacific, this journey has attracted a lot of attention. Betty, Penelope and Cecil were cherished in Boston to firmly fanfare before the trio was spent through a limo -eater’s limo, where Australia’s ambassador was waiting to feed them with a ceremonial first worm.

Betty died shortly after she arrived, but Penelope and Cecil quickly became celebrities. The crowds called for a look at the animals. A wedding was planned. Tabloids are obsessed with each step.

Platypus is lonely creatures, but New York was promised in love. And while Cecil was loved, Penelope was obviously ill with love. In the media, she was depicted as a “brazen geese”, “one of those spicy women who like to keep a man on the string.”

By 1953, that is, when the couple had a four -day throw – quite upset described as “all night” love ” – fueled” rich in the number of crayfish and worms “.

Alas, Penelope soon began to nest, and the world was delighted to wait for her colosptons that were supposed to become a large -scale scientific milestone – Only the second bred in captivity and the first outside Australia.

After four months of treatment for princess and double foam pyas, the zoo tested her nest in front of the excited journalists.

But they did not find the infant – just dissatisfied with the foam, who was accused of fake pregnancy to provide more worms and less sesil.

“It was a whole scandal,” says Mr. Kowen – the one from which the reputation of Penelope was never restored.

In 1957, in 1957, it would disappear from its corps, causing a few weeks of the search and rescue mission that ended at the zoo, announcing it “allegedly lost and probably dead.”

A day after the foam hunting was canceled, Cecil died of being diagnosed with the media as a “broken heart”.

Litted on vacation with the couple was any real future for the diplomacy of Kachnaos.

Despite the fact that the Bronx Zoo will try to repeat the exchange with more collapse in 1958, the finic beasts lasted less than a year, and Australia soon strengthened the laws that prohibit their exports. The only two who have left the country since then have lived at the San Diego Zoo since 2019.