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Is the platypus almost extinct

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No. The platypus is neither "almost extinct", nor "endangered". It is one of the few Australian animals which has made a remarkable comeback from near-extinction early in the twentieth century, to reach around the same population as it had prior to European settlement.

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