Talkb@ck

Sign up to the Australian Geographic email newsletter on our homepage and we’ll deliver fresh content to your inbox every week! In November, we published images by Ann Killeen of a stoush between a platypus and rakali that ended badly for the latter. Such interaction hadn’t been seen before. Here’s what you had to say: LANCE SNOWDON

I wonder if rakali could opportunistically predate platypus pups? MON LULAN Sad because we need those rakalis – they eat cane toads! JULIE HARRINGTON-SPRATT

Awesome nature, pity it ended in death, but that’s the circle of life. ELIZABETH HAWKER I grew up seeing both these. Kept well away from the water rats…very aggressive when mating. Never saw the two species together. This might be why. FIONA EVANS

I guess I was on the platypus’s side this time but I’ve always loved the busy water rats – they’re pretty cool customers!