If you want to learn more about platypus and join our PlatypusWatch program, complete this online induction.
You will learn about their unique biology, their life-cycle and breeding, food and habitat, platypus threats and you will also learn all about Watergum’s PlatypusWatch survey program.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 15 Lessons
- 30 Minutes
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- Watergum PlatypusWatch Online InductionThis course will tell you everything you need to know about the elusive platypus. You can take the course just for fun, but it is also an online enrolment to qualify as a volunteer on Watergum's platypus surveys! If you want to become a PlatypusWatch survey volunteer, please complete each section in the course, followed by the quiz. Please email [email protected] once you have completed the induction so that we can add you to the database. We hope you enjoy learning about platypus!15
- 1.1Part 1 – A Crash Course in Platypus
- 1.2Have you seen a platypus?
- 1.3Platypus Anatomy
- 1.4Platypus Life-cycle and Breeding
- 1.5Platypus Diet and Feeding
- 1.6Platypus Habitat
- 1.7Platypus Under Threat
- 1.8Part 2 – PlatypusWatch
- 1.9Why we monitor platypus populations
- 1.10Where we monitor platypus populations
- 1.11How to identify a platypus
- 1.12Part 3 – The survey
- 1.13How we survey platypus
- 1.14On the Day! Everything you need to know
- 1.15Last minute checklist
