Researchers want help to locate and protect elusive platypus populations – ABC News

The platypus may well be “elusive with few relations and fewer friends” as the famous Banjo Paterson poem suggests, but some current-day platypus devotees are encouraging people to seek them out.
Key points:

• Platypus habitat across eastern Australia has shrunk by 22 per cent over the past 30 years
• Scientists are encouraging people to record platypus sightings to help them protect the population
• The best time to spot a platypus is early morning or in the evening

The well-known monotreme is categorised…

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