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Spiny anteaters, also known as echidnas, originate from Australia and New Guinea. They are part of the monotreme family, which are egg-laying mammals. Their habitat includes a variety of environments, from forests to grasslands, where they feed primarily on ants and termites.
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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
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.
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.
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.
What continent did spiny anteaters originate from?
The spiny anteater, more correctly known as the echidna, originated on the Australian continent. Both species are found on Australia's nearest neighbour, the island of New Guinea, but only the short-beaked echidna is found in Australia itself.
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.
Do spiny anteaters have hair and spines?
Yes. The spiny anteater, more correctly known as the echidna, has both fur and spines.
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 are spiny anteaters related to seals?
Very, very tenuously. Seals and spiny anteaters (echidnas) are both mammals. They are not, however, even the same type of mammals. Seals are placental mammals and echidnas are monotremes (egg-laying mammals).
