Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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So, you know, platypus, like to see a platypus even in the wild is rare.
To come across their eggs inside the burrow, it's exceptionally rare.
Like you...
I'd say it would almost never happen.
And if it did, the eggs are tiny.
Like so I was talking about, you know, the size of the platypus when it's first born.
But the eggs are very small, like, you know, nothing like a chicken egg.
We're talking more like an oversized spider egg almost.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
okay so like mentos size but round so you know you wouldn't get much nutritional value out of a platypus egg I don't think and yeah in terms of the milk yeah you'd have to find I guess a lactating platypus and then be willing to suck all the milk straight from its stomach so you know if you're lucky enough to do that go for it
Yeah, so I guess in Australia, we have a big problem with like introduced species.
So red foxes, feral cats, that's probably the biggest issues for platypus.
But when you think about the platypus, like,
you know, they're living in rivers.
So you might think, oh, they're pretty much safe.
Like what's going to get them?
The issue that we have with those feral species is when conditions start to dry out, so rivers are drying up, the platypuses, they might start moving over land more to try and find better habitat, more water.
And that's when we see they're super vulnerable to those introduced predators.
There is also some evidence.
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