Editing Platypus (section)

=== Wildlife sanctuaries ===
Much of the world was introduced to the platypus in 1939 when ''[[National Geographic Magazine]]'' published an article on the platypus and the efforts to study and raise it in captivity. The latter is a difficult task, and only a few young have been successfully raised since, notably at [[Healesville Sanctuary]] in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. The leading figure in these efforts was [[David Fleay]], who established a platypusary (a simulated stream in a tank) at the Healesville Sanctuary, where breeding was successful in 1943.<ref name="Zoos Voctoria">{{cite web| url = http://www.zoo.org.au/news/fantastic-fleay-turns-20| title = Fantastic Fleay turns 20!| access-date = 4 February 2014| date = 31 October 2013| work = Zoos Victoria| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181109084854/https://www.zoo.org.au/news/fantastic-fleay-turns-20| archive-date = 9 November 2018| url-status = dead}}</ref> In 1972, he found a dead baby of about 50 days old, which had presumably been born in captivity, at his [[David Fleay Wildlife Park|wildlife park]] at [[Burleigh Heads, Queensland|Burleigh Heads]] on the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]], Queensland.<ref name="DF">{{cite web|url=http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/nature_conservation/wildlife/david_fleay_wildlife_park/50_years_wild/david_fleays_achievements/|title= David Fleay's achievements|publisher=Queensland Government|date=23 November 2003| access-date = 13 September 2006|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061002043523/http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/nature_conservation/wildlife/david_fleay_wildlife_park/50_years_wild/david_fleays_achievements/ |archive-date = 2 October 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> Healesville repeated its success in 1998 and again in 2000 with a similar stream tank.<ref name="catalyst"/> Since 2008, platypus has bred regularly at Healesville,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.zoo.org.au/news/pitter-patter---platypus-twins| title=Pitter patter – Platypus twins!| publisher=Zoo Victoria| date=4 March 2013| access-date=17 August 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828052202/https://www.zoo.org.au/news/pitter-patter---platypus-twins| archive-date=28 August 2018| url-status=dead}}</ref> including second-generation (captive born themselves breeding in captivity).<ref name=PlatConservZoo>{{cite web | url=https://platypus.asn.au/conservation/zoos/ | title=Zoos | publisher=Australian Platypus Conservancy | access-date=17 August 2017 | date=22 November 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304055829/https://platypus.asn.au/conservation/zoos/ | archive-date=4 March 2019 | url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Taronga Zoo]] in [[Sydney]] bred twins in 2003, and breeding was again successful there in 2006.<ref name="catalyst">{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s988946.htm|title=Platypus|publisher=Catalyst|date=13 November 2003|access-date=13 September 2006|archive-date=23 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723232610/http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s988946.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>