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Hobart's rivulet platypus dies days after being found tangled in twine

A popular city-dwelling platypus has died after it became entangled in twine, days after a call went out for the public to supply earthworms for its recovery.

The young female animal, which lived in the rivulet which runs through and under Hobart's CBD, was found earlier in November with twine wrapped around its body, causing several lacerations to its neck and leg.

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