Platypus in Wildlife Sanctuaries
The platypus can be seen in special aquariums at the following Australian wildlife sanctuaries:
- David Fleay Wildlife Park, Gold Coast, Queensland
- Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane
- Walkabout Creek Wildlife Centre,Brisbane
- Taronga Zoo, Sydney, NSW
- Healesville Sanctuary, near Melbourne, Victoria, where the platypus was first bred in captivity, during 1943, by naturalist David Fleay
- Warrawong Sanctuary near Mylor in the Adelaide Hills (near Adelaide).
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