Where would you find a platypus living?

Answer 1

Platypuses are found in eastern Australia alone.

Platypuses live throughout eastern coastal Australia and its island state of Tasmania, particularly within heavily wooded and protected regions. They are found from the cooler sub-alpine areas in the south, such as Victoria and the Tasmanian highlands, north through New South Wales to tropical far north Queensland. Platypuses live in bushland as well as tropical, sub-tropical and temperate rainforests.

Answer 2

Platypuses live in bushland as well as tropical, sub-tropical and temperate rainforests of eastern Australia. They live alongside freshwater creeks and rivers, digging burrows in the banks of permanent water sources, usually where overhanging tree roots can disguise the entrance.

Answer 3

Platypuses live in deep burrows they dig in the banks of freshwater rivers and creeks. These burrows, which may be up to 30 metres long, often have their entrances disguised by overhanging tree roots or vegetation. Females will dig a nesting chamber at the end, and line it with vegetation.
They live near streams and lakes in eastern Australia.

Answer 4

Platypuses are native to Australia alone. They do not live in New Zealand, New Guinea or anywhere else.

Platypuses live throughout eastern coastal Australia and its island state of Tasmania, particularly within heavily wooded and protected regions. They are found from the cooler sub-alpine areas in the south, such as Victoria and the Tasmanian highlands, north through New South Wales to tropical far north Queensland. Platypuses live in bushland as well as tropical, sub-tropical and temperaterainforests. Platypuses live in burrows that they dig on the banks of freshwater creeks, rivers, lakes and dams.

Answer 5

Platypuses live alongside frshwater creeks and rivers, especially wherever they can find A steep enough bank in which to dig their burrows.

The tropical rainforest is just one of the habitats in which platypuses can live. Platypuses live throughout eastern coastal Australia and its island state of Tasmania, particularly within heavily wooded and protected regions

Answer 6

Platypuses are endemic to eastern Australia, including the island state of Tasmania. They live in a variety of climate types, from tropical in the far north to temperate bushland, to cold temperate rainforests in the south. They live in long burrows which the platypus digs in the banks of rivers or creeks. These burrows can be up to 30 metres in length.

Answer 7

Platypuses are native to Australia alone. They are not found in any other country.

Platypuses live throughout eastern Australia, both in coastal areas and along inland waterways, and its island state of Tasmania, particularly within heavily wooded and protected regions. They are found from the cooler sub-alpine areas in the south, such as Victoria and the Tasmanian highlands, north through New South Wales to tropical far north Queensland. Platypuses live in bushland as well as tropical, sub-tropical and temperate rainforests.

Platypuses live in burrows that they dig on the banks of freshwater creeks, rivers, lakes and dams. The female digs a chamber at the end of a long burrow where she shelters her young.

They spend their time searching for food in rivers and lakes, and are thus considered semi-aquatic.

Platypuses do not live in New Zealand, nor anywhere else overseas.

There is a very limited number of platypuses in zoos overseas, but because platypuses are so delicate and almost impossible to breed in captivity, very few zoos are permitted to have them. Even within Australia itself, very few platypuses are kept in captivity in sanctuaries.

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Answer 8

The platypus is a monotreme mammal that lives only in Australia

Answer 9

Near creeks and rivers in Australia.