The shy platypus is revered in traditional Australian Dreamtime stories for its wisdom, because it recognises itself as special for its unique combination of animal, bird and marine features, and it teaches the other creatures that every one of them has something about them that makes them special too…
Only in PnF Land could you expect to find a venomous, amphibious, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, web-footed, egg-laying, sleek-furred purple mammal! However, the Purple Platypus’s brown-furred real life cousins make their homes near fresh water creeks and streams in south eastern Australia, and they are the animal emblem for the state of New South Wales.