Coronavirus restrictions may have closed the bar at the Mole Creek Hotel for eight weeks, but there was no slowing down the activity in the waterway that flows past the back door.
Coronavirus restrictions may have closed the bar at the Mole Creek Hotel for eight weeks, but there was no slowing down the activity in the waterway that flows by the pub's back door.They need to spend up to 12 hours a day foraging to meet their food requirementsThe four platypuses that live in it continued to forage day and night, as they have since Doug Westbrook took over the pub more than 12 years ago."We're lucky to have them right here in our backyard.
Thousands of people listen to rock music there until night's end, but Mr Westbrook said the platypuses were nonplussed.Platypuses are naturally curious creatures."I'm simply amazed that so many [Australians] have never seen a platypus in the wild," he said.Meanwhile, what seems to excite the platypuses are tidbits from the pub's kitchen.
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