Healesville Sanctuary (Zoos Victoria)
Wildlife park set among bushland where native Australian animals roam in naturalistic habitats along a winding creek.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Healesville Sanctuary follows naturalist David Fleay's 1939 hunt for one of the hardest animals alive to keep in captivity, the platypus. After building an elaborate creek-side enclosure for three platypuses he named Jack, Jill and Rebecca, he watched them for years for any sign of breeding, including a courtship dance he could only half interpret. Stand by Badger Creek, near the old burrowing bank, to picture him waiting there for a sign he couldn't yet read.
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