The iconic Australian animal is believed to have disappeared from Sydney's Royal National Park after a major chemical spill on the Princes Highway in the 1970s.
abc.net.au/news/platypus-reintroduced-to-royal-national-park-sydney/102344804Platypuses have been relocated to the Royal National Park in Sydney, after they disappeared from the park's waterways about 50 years ago.An expert says separating the sexes was key to their early survivalThe iconic Australian animal is believed to have disappeared from the national park after a major chemical spill on the Princes Highway in the 1970s, but numbers may already have been in decline.
"We've put females in a week to ten days before the males go in, just to let those girls settle in without those males who are a bit bolder, a bit boisterous," he said. "If they do, then obviously breeding, the establishing of burrows and a next generation is a midterm success indicator.Cameron Kerr from Taronga Zoo says the species is the silent victims of climate change."Platypus are the silent victims of climate change," director of the zoo's conservation society Cameron Kerr said.
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