Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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648 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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You know, it takes, I would say patience is the number one thing to have.
You can see them like really any rivers and streams throughout the East Coast, if you're lucky enough.
So dawn and dusk is the best time to see them.
And you really want to be sitting at areas, you know, where there's a nice slow moving, like a pool in a river, not those kind of fast moving rapids.
You really want those calm areas just because it makes it easier for you to sight them.
But then within, you know, within their distribution, there are some hot spots.
So like if you're hell bent on seeing a platypus, I would recommend going to Tasmania.
The river systems are slightly smaller throughout a lot of their range there.
The population size appears to be really good there.
So a lot of people have success with sightings in Tasmania.
I've only really been made aware of it, though, again, through social media.
So a lot of like the content we post, again, if it goes viral, I get all these people commenting like, this isn't Perry.
Like, where's his fedora?
Why is he not green?
Like, what's he doing?
Secret agent kind of stuff.
Even like the university that I work for, some of their social media content, you know, they've kind of been capitalizing on that and, you know, adding a little fedora and adding the background music to try and get people excited.
But yeah, people are, I think they have this perception, some people that, you know, that's
What a platypus is like this teal secret agent hat wearing weird thing.
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