Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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But, you know, it's highly anatomically incorrect, really.
Yeah, they definitely have personalities.
And that's evident even if you're not researching platypus and if you're just trying to spot a platypus in the wild.
You can already tell that they have these real different personalities.
Some are quite inquisitive.
If you're sitting on the bank of a river, they'll notice you there and they might be interested.
They might kind of pop up and down.
They might be quite playful.
Whereas others, they have those more shy tendencies.
So they might notice you and they might
dive and they might immediately swim away like they want nothing to do with you so there's definitely a difference and when we're trapping for sure like some we catch like you know even within females who are not typically the most aggressive sex like you will notice that some are kind of trying to bite you even though they don't have teeth they're kind of trying to I guess bite you with their bill whereas some are much more placid so there is real variation among individuals in terms of personality.
I think so.
Yeah, I think you can get a mix of both.
Yeah, hustling.
Like, yeah, they're doing a lot.
So you imagine, like I said, they're between one and three kilos, but they're eating these tiny like water bugs, you know, like insignificant in terms of their body weight.
So to get the amount of food that they need to survive, sometimes they're foraging up to 16 hours a day.
So...
They're swimming, they're out there, you know, and they're working against different flow conditions, different temperatures.
How many water bugs are in the river?
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