Physical description
Newspaper Clipping from "The Post", 14 January 1997, Page 11, "Platypus are surviving in the eastern suburbs"'.
Inscriptions & markings
A major survey of Melbourne's platypus population has found a "healthy number" of the animals living in creeks and rivers close to residential area in the outer east. Conservation and Land Management Minister, Marie Tehan, was present at the launching of the survey results, and spoke in detail about the results and the future planning and financial aid for the health of the Melbourne waterways.
