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The correct name for the spiny anteater is echidna.
There is no specific term for a baby echidna.
There are some reports that they are called puggles. This is incorrect. The term "puggle" developed as a name for baby echidnas, as they resembled "Puggles", an American soft-toy character. The company producing the "Puggles" toy considered legal action against the unauthorised use of the term "puggles". Whether or not this action went ahead is undetermined, but it could quite possibly be illegal to use the word for anything other than the soft toy.
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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 do spiny anteaters move?
Spiny anteaters, or echidnas, move with their feet.
How do spiny anteaters feed their young?
The spiny anteater, more properly known as the echidna, is a mammal, so it does indeed feed its young on mothers' milk.
Why do spiny anteaters are spiny?
Because the name is spiny which makes them spiny
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.
How do Anteater feed their young?
Spiny anteaters, more properly known as echidnas, are mammals. Therefore, they feed their young with mothers' milk.
Do spiny anteater feed their babies with milk?
Echidnas, or spiny anteaters, are mammals. Therefore, they do feed their young with mothers' milk. This is one of the defining characteristics of a mammal.
How many legs do anteaters have?
Spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, have four legs.
Does a spiny anteater give birth to live young?
No. The proper name of the spiny anteater is echidna, and it is not related to anteaters at all. A female echidna lays a single egg every breeding season.
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 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.
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).
