Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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And we were able to get some really unique footage of those kind of puggles growing up in their burrow for a few weeks, which was really exciting.
Puggles?
Puggles, yes.
Well, I guess up for debate.
I mean, yeah, I vote yeah.
Yeah, that's my philosophy.
Generally, now it's kind of more accepted as puggles, but there's no real evidence of where that came from.
And I know some of the old school researchers might prefer to use just juvenile platypus, but I think puggle kind of
It gets the audience excited anyway.
Yeah.
So they're born, like I said, they're primitive, but they're very much, they look like a platypus.
They're just tiny and pink and very underdeveloped.
Yeah.
Very strange looking initially.
Yeah.
So the front foot of the platypus, it's super specialized.
So it is webbed.
It's very well adapted to swimming in the rivers because that's kind of primarily what they're doing.
But it also has, they also have like nails on them as well.
So they can actually kind of fold back the webbing and then they can use their nails to dig these really like intricate burrows.
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