PLATYPUS In the Tropics
A new documentary in the life of the planets most unique and wonderful mammal
wildnews, 2007
"Platypus - In the tropics" ...
Participation in FILM FESTIVALS & Award Entries
2012 TellyAwards
2012 DC Environmental Film Festival
North Queensland Australia ...
Platypus in the Tropics” is a natural history documentary featuring the little-known lifestyle of the secretive Platypus living in the Tropical Rain forests of North Queensland, Australia.
Platypuses are known for inhabiting the southeastern temperate regions of Australia, notably New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, where their streams may freeze over in winter. People generally are not aware that Platypus also exists within the Wet Tropics region in monsoonal North Queensland.
This is the first time that a documentary has focused entirely upon the annual lifecycle of the Platypus.
The film provides an intimate, close-up perspective of Platypus life never before attained. The camera literally glides along and follows the Platypus as it swims, dives, feeds, grooms, deals with drought and flood, mates, digs burrows, carries nesting materials, builds a nesting chamber and raises its young.
Although focusing entirely upon the secretive and solitary lifestyle of the Platypus, the two only weather seasons are depicted by glimpses with subtle and sometimes dramatic changes in the surrounding rainforest.
Production ...
“Platypus in the Tropics”
For over 200 years Australians have been trying to discover the secrets of this famous and enigmatic monotreme.
Alberto Vale has produced, filmed, scripted and edited his latest nature documentary on the planets most unique and secretive mammal,
"This task took 7 years of arduous filming, and 14 years of platypus behavioural studies to finally deliver a documentary vision that will undoubtedly go down in history on the understanding of the “world’s most bizarre creature."
Alberto Vale
Executive Producer Director
WildCAM Australia ®