Platypus have been released into Royal National Park after absence of 50 years | Bay Post-Moruya Examiner
Five female platypus were released into the park.
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Five female platypus were released into the park.
Five female platypus were released into the park.
Four females were released into the wild as part of a translocation program.
Sydney, Australia, May 15 (EFE).- The Royal National Park of Australia, the oldest in the country, was once again populated by the emblematic platypus, after about 50 years since it became locally extinct, official sources reported Monday. Under a platypus repopulation program in the New South Wales region, whose capital is Sydney, a group of …
The egg-laying mammals haven't been seen at the site since the 1970s, but scientists hope the newly released creatures can re-establish a population