My family and I are normally found in rivers, streams, dams, billabongs and lakes on the east coast of Australia from Cooktown in Queensland down into Tasmania and across into far western Victoria and small areas of South Australia, including Kangaroo Island.
The Aquarium’s platypus exhibit has been designed to recreate a typical habitat. A good Platypus habitat consists of steep earth banks with good consolidation by roots of native vegetation which also overhangs the banks, which help to conceal the platypus burrows. The habitat the platypus are usually abundant in contain a diversity of bottom dwelling invertebrates (food source), a series of distinct pools with adequate vegetation and logs are also preferred.
