With the holiday break upon us and plenty of people hitting the great outdoors, something we can do to help understand our beautiful fauna is to report any platypus sightings.
Anywhere along the East coast from QLD to TAS.
This will help scientists to better understand numbers and range.
Reporting site here
Courtesy of this fascinating Ologies podcast episode, featuring Ornithorhynchologist (platypus wonk) Dr. Tahneal Hawke.
i didn't know Rakali were rare? we have loads of them around here
Water rats are not platypus.
Yeah, I skipped over the rakali / water rat part, my bad.
The reporting form has a box for Rakali.