The October 1938 American magazine Town and Country contained travel advertisements which offered the opportunity to cruise to Australia and adore its suntanned lifesavers , the freakish platypus , koala bears, kangaroos "Iowan birds with mound incubators to hatch their young ", wombats , laughing kookaburras and coral gardens , horse racing , other sporting events ; South America , where pesky monkeys scampered about under foot . Not much of a choice really.
