Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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they'll construct what we call a resting burrow.
And that's, you know, it's in the bank, it's maybe a couple of meters deep, but that's kind of where they're just hanging out during the day.
So that's different to the breeding burrow.
The breeding burrow is normally more complex.
It's normally deeper and might have like a series of chambers.
And yeah, it'll just be a bit more complex than those day-to-day burrows that they use.
Yeah.
So this is kind of what we've always thought was the case.
Like I said earlier, they're like a solitary animal.
We are seeing some evidence just in a few of our recent studies that in certain populations where the density is quite high, that
We've noticed a number of females are kind of sleeping in these big condos of, you know, females getting together in one certain area.
So whether that's like something to do with how many platypus there are or maybe at this location, that's just like the prime real estate and they're all trying to cram in there together.
We don't know.
They've gentrified the particular riverbank.
Yeah, so in the wild, it's super hard to do that.
Once a platypus goes into the burrow, it could be sort of anywhere in the earth mound on the riverbank.
So we have had a few instances where we've put like a radio tracker on the platypus.
And then when it goes into the burrow, you can kind of use this antenna to track
kind of pinpoint where the animal is in the bank and we have worked with a few documentary crews that managed to like carefully very hand drill like um down through the soil when once the female was you know out foraging in the river um we knew we weren't going to disturb her
hand drill down into that chamber and yeah, put a small flexible camera in and then kind of seal up the entrance.
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