(Supplied: Stephen Fleay archives) Biologist David Fleay was the first to lay eyes upon a platypus bred in captivity at Healesville Sanctuary. At the time, little was known about platypus breeding ...

A baby platypus bred in captivity emerged from her burrow two weeks after the Victorian bushfires, the Healesville Sanctuary has announced. The platypus is called Ember. The February bushfires ...

The baby platypus was born to a pair named Jack & Jill in the Healesville animal sanctuary near Melbourne, Australia. Its birth was a big surprise to naturalists. The platypus amuses most people ...

According to its website, Healesville was the first sanctuary to breed platypus in captivity starting in the 1940s with the birth of a platypus named Connie. Today, visitors can pet and feed the ...

For the senior platypus keeper at Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, Dr Jessica Thomas, it’s the species’ intelligence that’s most captivating. Since she first laid eyes on a platypus 11 years ago, she ...

If that is not your go, the sanctuary is also launching a new show titled Tales from Platypus Creek that will showcase the nocturnal mammal. The twice-daily presentations in an amphitheatre at the ...

A demonstration by a wildlife detection dog was shown to dozens of platypus experts who gathered for the first conference at Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary last week to discuss the future of the ...

Pamela Parker is the Henry Kissinger of the Brookfield Zoo. In fact, she just took off for her 35th visit to Australia in the last 11 years to work on her mission of ”zooplomacy.” In part, her ...

A juvenile platypus has been returned to the wild after receiving expert care for 10 months at the Healesville Sanctuary, in Victoria. According to the sanctuary, the platypus was found by cyclists ...

"The females are more tolerant and may even choose to nest in the same burrow," Jessica Thomas, platypus keeper at the Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria, Australia, told Live Science. But the ...