Jess Thomas, Platypus Keeper with Healesville Sanctuary's newest baby.
Photo Jay Town Sunday Herald Sun

Healesville Sanctuary is thrilled to announce the arrival of a new baby Platypus who poked his head out for the first time on Valentine's Day.

This is the third year in a row that the keeping team has successfully bred Platypus. Last year, Binarri produced a girl, Ember and, the year before, twins - a boy and a girl.

Barak and Binarri bred for the first time in 2008 and had twins Waddirrang and Burran. These names were also chosen for their Wurrundjeri significance meaning ‘platypus' and ‘night' respectively. The following year the Sanctuary welcomed the arrival of a single female Platypus whose emergence just after Black Saturday led keepers to name her ‘Ember'.

We would like to give our baby boy a Wurrundjeri name like those before him.

The winner will receive a family pass to Healesville Sanctuary and a behind-the-scenes experience to meet the baby Platypus.

To name Healesville Sanctuary's new baby Platypus,
please click here.