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Travails of an intrepid platypus counter
![Josh Griffiths photographed at night wearing a head torch crouching in a stream holding a platypus by the tail](http://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-020-03650-1/d41586-020-03650-1_18703370.jpg)
Josh Griffiths is a wildlife ecologist for Cesar Australia in Parkville, Australia. Credit: Doug Gimesy/Nature Picture Library
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Nature 589, 162 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03650-1