Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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They expect them to be kind of like, you know, like otter beaver size.
Yeah, yeah.
But definitely much smaller.
Like I guess average would be around a kilo, a kilo and a half and about 50 centimeters.
So yeah, they're much smaller than what people expect.
Only Australia.
Yeah.
So endemic to Australia, which, you know, makes them very unique in terms of their evolution.
Yeah, so it's a bit of a hot topic.
Platypus, like they're pretty hard to keep in captivity.
There are a few institutions.
So we have Taronga Zoo in Sydney and out at Dubbo here that house platypus really successfully.
And also Healesville Sanctuary down in Victoria, who have like a long history of having platypus in captivity and
They're really kind of, they know how to house them well.
They know what they need.
And there's a few other institutions around Australia that do it really well.
There is also over at San Diego Safari Park, they've got a pair of platypuses that came over from Sydney a few years ago who are doing really well.
So there are a few institutions, but the problem is they're really hard to breed in captivity.
So, you know, they're only really coming into these zoos if they're coming in as like rehab animals, if they're coming in from the wild injured.
So that's really the only way that we can kind of get those animals in captivity.
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