An indigenous story about how the echidna got its spines can be found at the related link below.
Platypuses and echidnas are both monotremes, that is, egg-laying mammals.
Platypuses and echidnas are both monotremes, that is, egg-laying mammals. They are indigenous to Australia, although there are actually two species of echidna, one of which can be found in New Guinea.
People are not doing anything beyond normal legislative protection to protect echidnas from habitat loss. Echidnas are classified as Common in Australia, as they have adapted to all habitats, while the long-beaked echidna of New Guinea is under more threat of being hunted by indigenous tribes than of habitat loss.
Echidnas do not hibernate.
No. Echidnas do not hop. They walk.
There are no echidnas in Bali. Echidnas are found only in Australia and on the island of New Guinea.
No. All echidnas are mammals, and all mammals are vertebrates. Echidnas are different from "echinoderms".
No. Echidnas eat termites.
Yes. Echidnas are solitary animals.
Echidnas do not hibernate.
There's no collective term for a group of echidnas.
Echidnas do not hibernate.