| June |
- The size of the testes and sperm production in
males captured between July and the end of October, indicate
that this is the main breeding period.
- There may be some overlap between the mating and
lactation season however, as females have been caught that
were producing milk in late September.
- It is assumed that gestation lasts about a month
and incubation roughly ten days.
- Lactation is known to take 3 1/2 months, this
means young that emerge from the burrow in
February would have resulted from a mating that occurred in
September.
| Mating
Season |
| Lactation
Season |
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Information Courtesy of: ((1995) Grant, T. The Platypus)
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