The Platypus Guardian
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This story is about an extraordinary man and a mysterious animal living on an island at the end of the world Tasmania. Peter Walsh is a Tasmanian with no background in natural history, yet he has become obsessed with one of nature's least understood and most unlikely creature, the platypus. Walsh is on a mission to observe and understand the animals and save them from urban development in the capital city of Hobart. He has befriended one particular female he named Zoom. She lets him into her secretive world and a relationship like no other develops. Walsh will reveal the life of this enigmatic creature, but his time is precious as he manages with his MS diagnosis.

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 4201

About Nature:

NATURE, television's longest-running weekly natural history series, has won more than 200 honors from the television industry, parent groups, the international wildlife film community and environmental organizations, including the only award ever given to a television program by the Sierra Club.


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