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No. The echidna is a wild animal, and being native to Australia, it is protected by law. It cannot be domesticated; nor is it legal to try.

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How do spiny anteaters move?

Spiny anteaters, or echidnas, move with their feet.


Do spiny anteaters have lungs?

Yes. Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are mammals. All mammals breathe using lungs. Therefore, echidnas have lungs.


How many legs do anteaters have?

Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, have four legs.


How are spiny anteaters related to seals?

Very, very tenuously. Seals and spiny anteaters (echidnas) are both mammals. They are not, however, even the same type of mammals. Seals are placental mammals and echidnas are monotremes (egg-laying mammals).


What do spiny anteaters use for shelter?

Spiny anteaters, more properly known as echidnas, may shelter in hollow or rotting logs; they may dig burrows; or they shelter under bushes.


Do platypuses and spiny anteaters give birth to young alive?

No. Platypuses and spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. The young are hatched, not born.


How many bones does an anteater have?

Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, have four legs.


Why is it incorrect to call the echidna a spiny ant eater?

The echidna is sometimes called a spiny anteater, but it bears no relation to anteaters. Anteaters are placental mammals, and echidnas are monotremes (egg-laying mammals).


Does a spiny anteater have fur?

All mammals have fur or hair. That includes spiny anteaters (echidnas). The spines on the echidna are actually modified hairs.


Who is enchinda mammals?

The echidnas are spiny anteaters. They are one of only 2 mammals that give birth in. eggs


What is the synonym for echidna 'spines'?

Spiny Anteater is another name for the echidna. However, echidnas are not related to anteaters at all, despite the name. Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, while anteaters a placental mammals. Echidnas have sharp spines, hence the name 'spiny' and they feed primarily on termites, as well as ants.


Why one scientist thinks that spiny anteaters are mammals?

All scientists believe that spiny anteaters (more correctly known as echidnas) are mammals because they feed their young on mothers' milk. This is the defining characteristic of a mammal.