Looped litter: Hair band
Outcome: Immediate Release
My heart sank when I first saw Lil Mac with something around its neck. I had observed his mother throughout nesting, and been a part of Lil Mac’s world since the first day he emerged from the burrow.
Juvenile platypus must find a territory to call their own. In the case of Lil Mac he ventured downstream until he found a vacant stretch of waterway – for better or worse directly below the stormwater outfall where the city tip empties into the Hobart Rivulet.
It’s bittersweet, to assist a platypus then release them back into the same polluted environment. The one upside in this case, was that I knew the loop had only been around his body for a day.
