Yungaburra Platypus Viewing Platform
Riverside timber platform overlooking a shaded creek where wild platypus surface at dawn and dusk.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the platypus viewing platform on Peterson Creek near Yungaburra, in the Atherton Tablelands, opens with a genetic oddity that never behaves like the rest of the mammal world. From there it follows John Geoffrey Tracey, the rainforest ecologist who spent decades studying this country and helped overturn assumptions about where these forests came from. You will hear why the walking track leading to this very platform now carries his name. Watch the water he once studied himself while you listen.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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