“We still don’t know what they’ve done with the heads,” Hazel Cook, spokeswoman for the Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES), told Guardian Australia. The Murray River, a natural habitat for platypuses, is several blocks from the botanic gardens where the dead platypuses were found. “The animals appear to have been deliberately killed in an horrific act of cruelty,” said a statement from the Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service. You can actually see where they’ve tried to cut into the vertebrae,” Cook told the Border Mail. “It’s very obvious it’s not a fox.”“We would love to be proved wrong,” Cook told Guardian Australia.

Source: Washington Post April 13, 2017 06:34 UTC