Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

It was love at first sight, when Jack Ashby first set eyes upon a platypus specimen as a young university student.

The introduction set him on a lifelong mission to meet these quintessentially Australian creatures in the wild, and redefine their reputation as "weird" or "primitive".

He's met many other animals along the way, coming face to face with an elusive snow leopard family in the Himalayas, with wombats and echidnas, and seeing only the eyes of a sloth bear, reflecting his torchlight in a pitch black forest.

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