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=== Captivity === As of 2019, the only platypuses in captivity outside of Australia are in the [[San Diego Zoo Safari Park]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/nov/22/platypus-display-san-diego/|title=Rare Platypus On Display At San Diego Zoo Safari Park|last=Anderson|first=Erik|date=22 November 2019|website=KPBS Public Media|language=en|access-date=29 December 2019|quote=The animals are the only platypuses on display outside of their native country.|archive-date=13 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513103631/https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/nov/22/platypus-display-san-diego/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/platypus|title=Platypus {{!}} San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants|website=animals.sandiegozoo.org|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=25 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725024623/https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/platypus|url-status=live}}</ref> Three attempts were made to bring the animals to the [[Bronx Zoo]], in 1922, 1947, and 1958. Of these, only two of the three animals introduced in 1947, [[Penelope (platypus)|Penelope]] and Cecil,<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=19 August 1957 |title=Animals: End of the Affair |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C809719%2C00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616062446/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809719,00.html |archive-date=16 June 2007 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> lived longer than eighteen months.<ref>{{cite book | author = Lee S. Crandall | title = The Management of Wild Mammals in Captivity | publisher = University of Chicago Press | date = 1964}}</ref>
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