#wildlife-observation

#wildlife-observation

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.

Finding one can be fatal, whether she's in the mood or not. Females are known to snack on their suitors. "If the female is not receptive, you better run," said Rodrigo Monjaraz Ruedas, assistant curator of entomology for the Natural History Museum of L.A. County. "Even if the female is receptive and they mate - after they mate, the male needs to be really fast and sneaky because otherwise the female can also eat the male as well."