looks a little small to be man eating. Unless you ment manhood
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looks a little small to be man eating. Unless you ment manhood
absoloutely gorgeous, how did you manage to catch him?
I wonder how many children have the pleasure of ever seeing a platypus in the wild.
It brings back memories of the times my two-year-old son and I spent in Noreuil Park (Albury - on the Murray River) watching a platypus play
My son is now 26 - and unfortunately it has been many years since a platypus has been seen in that area.:(
What an experience for you - you are indeed very fortunate.;)
Mate, we don't need big cats to kill and eat you. Our wildlife is sneaky. The male platypus has a poisonous spur. Once it has immobilised you, it slowly devours you (after dragging you into it's underwater burrow).Quote:
Originally Posted by CapeLandy
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Originally Posted by http://www.australianfauna.com/platypus.php
Good to see they're still around. I've only ever seen two in the wild, both on the same day.
My parents used to have the dry cleaning business in Tumut, and when I was down there on holidays from Alice Springs, used to borrow one of their cars and go fishing in the river behind the racecourse in town early mornings. Saw two platypus playing in the river one morning while I was trying for a bit of fresh trout - will never forget it.
got any yabbie nets :whistling:Quote:
I've seen some really big Gippsland Spiny crays in it as well as Brown and Rainbow Trout up to around 30 Cm,
Grabbed him from above around the body just behind the front legs, just in case it was a male.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sprint
As a juvenile, his spur was only sbout 1 mm long.
I didn't try to get pics of it as I didn't want to overhandle him. I went back to where I found him after work and he was still fossicking through the mud.
Tha last Platypus I saw at work was dead in an "Opera House" net.Quote:
Originally Posted by hiline
I use a dip net for crays, or if it's a nice day I just walk up the riverbed and pick them up-carefully!
Dont have them things up here and as for the trout the black mink are depleteing the stocks of fish as some geeek thought that it was cruel to farm mink and released the captives, who have no natural enemies here not even a snake............
thats one of the reason they Banned all opera house netsQuote:
Originally Posted by Hymie
last time we used our nets we ended up with 2 dead turtles:(
i might head off for a fish tomorrow now we've mentioned it :D