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Are platypuses threatened

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No. Platypuses do not currently qualify as threatened, nor Near Threatened, nor prior to 2001 as Conservation Dependent.

The Australian Government lists the platypus as "common but vulnerable".

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