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Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), family Tachyglossidae, Canberra, Australia
Also called "spiny anteaters".
Echidnas are monotremes, mammals that lay eggs (along with platypuses).
Females lay eggs and keep them in a pouch.
The hatchlings are called "puggles".
photographs by Luke Adams
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Short-beaked echidna By: Elwin R. Sanborn From: Zoological Society Bulletin, Vol XXI, No. 4 1918
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have you done the humble platypus?
Have you seen the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)?
I have now
Yes, in photos/videos
Yes, irl
I'm not sure
I didn't know this, but apparently platypus babies have teeth, which they lose around the time they leave their natal burrow. Adult platypuses do not have teeth. Another thing I didn't know: when they walk on land they walk on their knuckles, to protect the webbing of their feet.
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Please it's very important, I need to know for science if the adorably fucked up little guy that is the platypus is a Critter, a Creature, or a Beast
Creature!
I think it can walking up to me and putting its head on my shoe for. I don't know.
Long-beaked Echidna Refound!!!
Bizarre, egg-laying mammal finally rediscovered after 60 years
More than sixty years after it was last recorded, an expedition team has rediscovered an iconic, egg-laying mammal in one of the most unexplored regions of the world. Attenborough's Long-beaked Echidna, named after famed broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, was captured for the first time in photos and video footage using remote trail cameras set up in the Cyclops Mountains of Indonesia's Papua Province...
Read more: Found at last: bizarre, egg-laying mammal finally rediscovered after 60 years | University of Oxford
Attenborough’s echidna rediscovered by combining Indigenous knowledge with camera-trapping | npj Biodiversity
