In what country would you find a platypus?

Answer 1

A duck billed platypus is usually found in Eastern Australia and the cold highlands of Tasmania. The live in small rivers and streams. They can also be found living in captivity in Zoos and wildlife sanctuaries around the world.

Answer 2

Platypuses are native to 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.

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.

Answer 3

Platypuses are found only in the country and continent of Australia.