Do echidnas live in nests

Answer 1

A female echidna lays her egg directly into a pouch on her abdomen.

During breeding season, the female develops a rudimentary pouch which is really just a flap of skin. When it comes time to lay her egg, she curls tightly into a ball and lays it directly in this pouch, where it is incubated for around 10 days. The young emerge blind and hairless, and stay in the pouch, suckling for two to three months. The young echidna is transferred to a burrow when it begins to develop sppines.

Answer 2

Echidnas do sometimes shelter in burrows, but they are more commonly found living among rocks, in hollow logs and in holes among semi-exposed tree roots.

Female echidnas, which develop a rudimentary pouch during breeding season in which they incubates their egg, dig a burrow to shelter the young echidna when it begins to develop its spines.

Answer 3

Yes, they do. Echidnas are quick and efficient burrows, digging in the soil almost horizontally as soon as danger threatens. The female also transfers her baby to a burrow when its developing spines become too sharp for her temporary pouch.

Answer 4

The echidna usually lays a single egg in a pouch that it develops during breeding season.

Answer 5

Echidnas do not make nests, but they do dig burrows.

Answer 6

Yes. The echidna, like the platypus, is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal.

Answer 7

Echidnas do not build or live in nests. Echidnas may shelter in hollow or rotting logs; they may dig burrows; or they shelter under bushes.

Answer 8

yes