Remarkable vision of a platypus taking nesting material to its burrow. Arguably the world's most successful captive breeding program of platypus continues to produce results at Warrawong. Started by Dr John Wamsley in the 1990s, platypus have bred each year at the Sanctuary, and continue to do so. The secret to the success is in the "enclosure". Instead of building an aquarium, Dr Wamsley built an ecosystem. The theory being, platypus know how to breed, they just need a safe environment in which
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