"Cody Stylianou thought he saw a huge trout. But, skimming just below the surface, it was moving differently than a fish would. The creature surfaced and, amazed, the Victorian fisher reached for his phone. Swimming in front of him was a pink platypus. Stylianou regularly fishes in the Gippsland spot, which he is keeping secret to protect the rare animal. He thinks it could be the same one he saw years ago, just older and bigger."
"Platypus do vary a lot in colour, the director of the Australian Platypus Conservancy says. And this one's at the extreme end of the light ones. It's not one that we consider should be added to the list of albino and leucistic ones. Just as humans have different coloured hair or skin pigment, platypus also come in different variations, Williams says. He said the platypus captured on video was unusual but not exceptional."
A Victorian fisherman filmed a pink platypus while trout fishing in a Gippsland river and nicknamed it Pinky. He observed the animal feeding at the tannin-stained surface for about 15 minutes and followed it underwater to capture multiple videos. The fisherman keeps the location secret to protect the rare-seeming animal and believes it may be an individual he saw years earlier, now larger. Local biologists note platypus show wide colour variation and assess this individual as an extreme light-coloured example, not albino or leucistic. Regular-coloured platypus have also been seen in the same river system.
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