
Witness a 'Platypus Love Donut'
Clip: Season 42 Episode 1 | 2m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Two platypus come together to mate.
When mating, platypus put their bill on each other’s tail, like they’re in a trance, in what filmmaker Pete Walsh dubbed the "platypus love donut."
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Major support for NATURE is provided by The Arnhold Family in memory of Henry and Clarisse Arnhold, The Fairweather Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Charles Rosenblum, Kathy Chiao and...

Witness a 'Platypus Love Donut'
Clip: Season 42 Episode 1 | 2m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
When mating, platypus put their bill on each other’s tail, like they’re in a trance, in what filmmaker Pete Walsh dubbed the "platypus love donut."
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] I was following Scoot upriver and we came across a female grooming.
She was lying back scratching, releasing her scent into the water.
And then I realized it was Zoom.
All that time she was missing, but here she was, upriver.
Scoot had been following the smell of a female he'd never met, and he'd taken me along as his wingman.
Mating doesn't happen immediately.
There's a fair bit of foreplay for platypus.
The females are really testing the males.
Scoot might've been from the wrong side of the tracks, but it felt like Zoom had finally met a male that she was happy to mate with.
They put their bill on each other's tail like they're in a trance.
I call it the platypus love donut.
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