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<\/a>Counting platypus, or platypuses is a very difficult task, even trying to deploy volunteers to do the task in a single length of a waterway is just an impracticable logistic attempt plus the positive fact that the same animal will be counted several times over by almost everyone.<\/p>\n
Platypuses are present in the Eastern Australian coastline waterways from Cooktown in North Queensland to Victoria and the northern part of South Australia a distance over 4,500 km, not including the waterways areas in the whole of Tasmania and Flinders Island.<\/p>\n
So if you want to establish how many platypuses exist in you waterway, try this simple and tried way by me:<\/p>\n
1 establish the length of you waterway that you need to cover by foot<\/p>\n
2 everyday do a walking sweep both in the morning (same time) and at noon (same time) in the area you have chosen<\/p>\n
3 count every single animal that you see in your walk either when it surfaces or dives, make sure you have a positive match and not a sighting from a freshwater turtle, a water rat, a fish splash or water ripples (and don’t stop to watch the animal)<\/p>\n
4 when you finish the walked area, save your noted numbers (then go back and start watching the animals if you so desire, and yes they will be there for you)<\/p>\n
4 the end of 12 months divide the total sightings by the days observed to obtain the total average of animals present in you waterway and surprisingly much more \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
5 then do a quantity graph for each month and you will see also the highest representation of the animals presence on each single month.<\/p>\n
Would you like to know the latest interesting platypus facts like, life inside their burrow, how they choose their nesting burrow, who does what? in a platypus burrow and more.<\/p>\n
Then get yourself a DVD copy of the newest documentary in the life of this planets most unique animal.<\/p>\n
Preview here http:\/\/vimeo.com\/44635890 password: platypus<\/p>\n
PLATYPUS in the Tropics DVD – (Main DOCUMENTARY) Exempt From Classification<\/p>\n
A WildCAM Australia® presentation, a film by Alberto Vale & June Vale.
\nNarration ENGLISH
\nSubtitles in English, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.<\/p>\n
DVD Media disc is a “Double Sided” disc and has been formatted to play both PAL & NTSC broadcast TV signals, Worldwide and All Regions. TV Aspect ratio is 16:9, Audio Stereo.<\/p>\n
This is the first time that a documentary has focused entirely upon the annual lifecycle of the Platypus. The film provides an intimate, close-up perspective of Platypus life never before attained.
\nThe camera follows the Platypus as it swims, dives, feeds, grooms, deals with drought and flood, mates, digs burrows, carries nesting materials, builds a nesting chamber and raises its young.
\nThis Australian produced documentary is the first to encompass the tropical platypus life, a milestone in understanding the “world’s most bizarre creature” in tropical Australia.
\nApproximate running time 40 minutes<\/p>\n
Plus Bonus Documentary LIFE Beneath the Canopy<\/p>\n
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It will be erroneous to presume that platypuses are abundant, in fact there is no current number to date that could confirm a realistic population number, but only the vast large estimates between 10 thousand to 100 thousand platypuses may be in existence. Counting platypus, or platypuses is a very difficult task, even trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2192334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/platypus_wildcam_australia%C2%AE.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[508,507,529,393,392,312],"class_list":["post-14961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-australian-wildlife","tag-lates-platypus-dvd","tag-latest-platypus-in-the-tropics-dvd-video","tag-ornithorhynchus-anatinus","tag-platypus-in-the-tropics","tag-queensland","ngg_tag-animals","ngg_tag-bird","ngg_tag-andes","ngg_tag-animal","ngg_tag-animalia","ngg_tag-aves","ngg_tag-avian-2","ngg_tag-bird-watching","ngg_tag-birds-2","ngg_tag-birdwatching","ngg_tag-central-america","ngg_tag-crimson-crested-woodpecker-campephilus-melanoleucos","ngg_tag-glenn-bartley","ngg_tag-nature","ngg_tag-neotropical","ngg_tag-panama","ngg_tag-rainforest","ngg_tag-south-america-2","ngg_tag-wildlife-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}