Who's Australia's best semi-aquatic mammal? We thought it was a rakali, until this video emerged
For some time now — about four weeks — it has been the accepted wisdom that the native Australian water rat or rakali, is superior to our much-beloved platypus.TL;DR, the rakali is as soft, cute and clean as the platypus, but with one massive trump card — the rakali has been known to disembowel cane toads and gorge on their tasty insides.into meltdown, as they scrambled to design a 20-cent piece featuring the worthier semi-aquatic mammal.
But new information exposes a glaring omission in our earlier analysis and which, depending on your outlook, could shake the recently manufactured platypus versus rakali controversy to its very foundations. Check your pockets. If you've got a 20-cent-piece in there, you're walking around with a cold-blooded, duck-billed psychopath, dangerously close to your nether regions.
Footage first shot at Rutherglen, in north-eastern Victoria, by Victorian photographer Ann Killeen in 2017, which has only just surfaced, shows a much darker side to the animal once thought to have been stitched together from a duck and a mole as a prank. "I think the whole thing started in a nesting burrow and the platypus had eggs under her tail," Ann says.
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