Police believes the elusive critter had been plucked from its natural habitat in the northern state of Queensland.
An undated handout framegrab shows a man carrying a rare, wild platypus at a train station near Brisbane. Police said on April 6 they were searching for two people spotted boarding a suburban train with the unusual piece of living luggage – a rare wild platypus swaddled in a towel. — Handout/Queensland Police Service/AFPPolice said on April 6 they were searching for two people spotted boarding a suburban train with the unusual piece of living luggage – a rare wild platypus swaddled in a towel.
“The concern we have got is obviously the well-being of this animal given it's been removed from its natural environment,” Queensland police acting superintendent Scott Knowles told reporters Thursday. CCTV photos from April 4 showed a man in flip-flops strolling along a train platform north of Brisbane while cradling the platypus – about the size of kitten – under his arm.
Under Queensland’s conservation laws it is illegal to take “one or more” platypus from the wild, with a maximum fine of A$430,000 .
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