Dr. Tahneal Hawke

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If they're waking up from the anesthesia, they're a bit like, like what's happening to me?

We do get some that do like a bit of squeaking when they're waking up.

So like really cute, like squeaking sounds or even like a bit of like a snoring sound when they're waking up from the anesthesia.

But that's kind of it.

You know, they don't rely much on vocalization.

So we don't hear too much for them.

Yeah.

So again, this is like where all our research kind of leads is we want to better understand their conservation status.

So how many are in the wild?

Has that declined?

What's their range?

Is that changing?

So that's kind of why we're out there at night.

We're tagging these animals.

We're trying to estimate numbers.

But as you can imagine, it's very difficult to even see a platypus.

So to study a platypus,

it's high effort to try and catch them.

And you need to do that repeatedly at a single site to get an understanding of how many platypuses are just at that one site.

And even then, that can be inaccurate because obviously these animals, they're not in a closed system.

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