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Australian Wildlife: Amazing Platypus
Title:
Australian Wildlife: Amazing Platypus
NFSA ID
27218
Year
1973
This episode of the series Australian Wildlife is about the platypus. Like the echidna, the platypus is a monotreme - the only mammals whose young are hatched from eggs.
This film shows the platypus in its natural surroundings - swimming, feeding, burrowing and at play.
Director
John Shaw
Producer
John Morris
Production Company
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit
Cinematographer
John Shaw
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.