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Just like the platypus, the echidna is unusual in that it lays an egg and doesn't give birth to live young. The egg is incubated in a special pouch on the underside of the female and hatches after about 10 days. The young echidna (known as a puggle), suckles milk from mammary glands inside the pouch. The puggle stays in the pouch for about 3 months, but then it starts to grow spines and becomes a bit prickly for the mother. She constructs a special nursery burrow for the puggle. The puggle will continue to suckle from its mother and will only leave the burrow after it is 12 months old.
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What is Echidnas powers?
to create monsters and raise them to be evil/ greek myth
Do echidnas give birth to live young?
No. Echidnas are monotremes, meaning they are egg-laying mammals. They do not give birth to live young, but lay eggs in order to reproduce.
What do echidnas feed their young?
Echidnas are mammals, despite being egg-laying mammals, or monotremes. Therefore, like all mammals, they feed their young on mothers' milk.
How do echidnas feed their young?
Echidnas are mammals, so the young drink mothers' milk. When the young hatches from the egg, it is fed on mother's milk which seeps from milk glands, not teats like other mammals.
How many echidnas live together?
Echidnas are generally solitary animals. They do not live in groups.
What do baby echidnas eat?
Echidnas are mammals, so the young drink mothers' milk. When the young hatches from the egg, it is fed on mother's milk which seeps from milk glands, not teats like other mammals.
Do gorillas raise its young?
gorillas do raise their young
How do Anteater feed their young?
Spiny anteaters, more properly known as echidnas, are mammals. Therefore, they feed their young with mothers' milk.
How does a anaconda raise its young?
They do not raise them.
What do echidna mothers feed their babies?
Echidnas are mammals, so the young feed on mothers' milk.
Does an echidna live underground?
Echidnas do dig burrows underground, but they do not necessarily live there. These burrows are usually for the purpose of incubating their young. Echidnas refer to live among rocks or under thick bushes.
Where do dingoes raise their young?
Dingoes raise their young in a den, which is usually in a cave.
