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The spiny anteater is more correctly known as the echidna. The biggest threat to echidnas occurs when they are young. Snakes will sometimes enter their burrow and eat the baby echidna. Other animals do not usually attempt to eat this spiky creature, but some echidna predators include very brave foxes and goannas.
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How do spiny anteaters move?
Spiny anteaters, or echidnas, move with their feet.
Why do spiny anteaters are spiny?
Because the name is spiny which makes them spiny
What animals eat anteaters?
The spiny anteater is more correctly known as the echidna. The biggest threat to echidnas occurs when they are young. Snakes will sometimes enter their burrow and eat the baby echidna. Other animals do not usually attempt to eat this spiky creature, but some echidna predators include very brave foxes and goannas.
Do humans eat echidnas?
No. 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).
How many legs do anteaters have?
Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, have four legs.
Do spiny anteaters have lungs?
Yes. Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are mammals. All mammals breathe using lungs. Therefore, echidnas have lungs.
What is the subset for a platypus?
Monotremes is the group it's in, and the only other animals in that catogory are two species of echidna (also known as spiny anteaters).
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.
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).
How do you keep spiny anteaters out of garden?
Kill the ants in your back yard.
What eats anteaters?
The animals that eat anteaters are mainly the big cats like Lions, jaguars, and pumas, are the main animals that will eat these creatures.
