Platypuses are shy, nocturnal, and were thought to be common—but new studies seem to suggest they have declined right beneath our noses
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fewer platypuses now than there once were. Places where, a century ago, a dozen or two of the animals could be caught in a day now yield less than a handful after exhaustive nighttime surveying, if researchers are lucky.“For species like platypus, whose population declines happened before ecologists started studying them, these types of historical observations are extremely valuable,” says
, a historical ecologist with Maine's Colby College who was not involved in the study. “It is an excellent use of historical data to understand the population dynamics of an iconic species.”
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