Platypus [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Andrew Thelander" <>]

Hi Vicki

You wrote:
we
> were watching a platypus happily bobbing around on the surface and
> diving for food, with its every move closely followed - literally - by a
> little black cormorant, who dived down, followed the platypus around
> under the water, and popped back up on the surface beside the platypus.
> We managed to get the little opportunist on video, and I reckon it
> deserves to win Funniest Home Videos!  Has anyone else observed this
> kind of behaviour before?

Birds Qld have published a couple of accounts of similar behaviour in their
journal, The Sunbird.  The accounts involved platypus + Dusky moorhen and
Azure kingfisher.

Yours is the first video evidence I've heard of, though!

Regards
Andrew

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