A platypus in Broken River inside Eungella National Park, Queensland.

The best places to see platypuses in Queensland, Australia

The platypus is one of the most improbable animals on earth — venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed and beaver-tailed. It also happens to be genuinely difficult to find. Platypuses are shy, solitary, largely crepuscular and spend most of their time in burrows or underwater. Even in good…

The best places to see manatees in Georgia, USA

Georgia is not Florida. It does not have warm springs, dedicated manatee refuges or swim-with programmes. What it does have is a remarkably productive stretch of Atlantic coastline — the Golden Isles, the Lowcountry, the ACE Basin — where West Indian manatees spend the warmer…