Echidnas

Most of the echidnas' adaptations are physiological or structural. However, one behaviour which certainly helps the echidna to survive is its tendency to burrow. Echidnas have strong front legs and sharp claws that enable them to dig quickly into the ground to avoid danger. They "flatten out" as they dig, appearing to sink horizontally into the ground, thus ensuring their sharp spines are exposed through the process.

The echidna does not have spikes; it has spines, in numbers of between 5,000 and 10,000.

The spiny anteater, more properly known as the echidna, is a mammal, so it does indeed feed its young on mothers' milk.

Yes, the echidna is native to Australia, but it is also native to New Guinea. The species in Australia is the short-beaked echidna and the species native to New Guinea is the long-beaked echidna. These are the only two countries in which the echidna is found.

Like a hedgehog an Echidna can curl up into a tight spiky ball. Due to the presence of their spines, echidnas simply do not have many predators. Even young echidnas develop spines by the time they are about 3 months old. Echidnas have strong front legs and sharp claws that enable them to dig quickly into the ground to avoid danger. They "flatten out" as they dig, appearing to sink horizontally into the ground, thus ensuring their sharp spines are exposed through the process.

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. Goannas will dig into an echidna's burrow and eat the young.

A fascinating museum exhibit in Australia shows a fossilised snake eating a fossilised echidna. It would appear the echidna's spikes caught as it was being swallowed by the snake, and both creatures perished.

Echidnas in northern Australia are nocturnal. On occasion, they are seen during the day when the weather is mild. Echidnas in southern Australia tend to be more active during the day, especially during winter.

The echidna has a long tongue with sticky saliva, which it uses to catch and eat termites and ants.

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break 2 rocks with the force of 1 punch,throw eggman across the world,kill a bee,stop a falling tree,break peanut brittle,and rip your ear off.[i did not mean to make it ryme].

The echidna usually lays just a single egg at a time.

There is no specific name given to a female echidna. It is just a female echidna.

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Knuckles has a secret crush on rouge but rouge has a secret crush on him too. The way knuckles acts around her in the games shows that he likes her more than she likes him.

Yes. The echidna is a mammal, and all mammal have lungs.

Echidnas cannot be bought. They are native animals, and therefore protected by law.

The spiny anteater, more correctly known as the echidna,is a monotreme. This means it is an egg-laying mammals, one of only two such types of animals in the world. The other monotreme is the platypus.

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No. The young echidnas suckle milk from milk patches on the mother's skin.

The echidna is not a marsupial, but a female echidna develops a pouch, or rather a flap of skin, during the breeding season. She curls up and lays her single egg in this pouch, where it is then incubated until it hatches.

Sometimes, the male even develops a pouch during breeding season, but it serves absolutely no function.

Echidnas are generally solitary animals. They do not live in groups.

The echidna found in New Guinea is a different species to that found in Australia. The theory goes that Australia, New Guinea, the islands of Oceania, South America, Africa and Antarctica were all once part of a supercontinent known as Gondwana. With continental drift, the continents and islands separated, this isolating certain animal types to selected parts of the world - this is one of the reasons why the majority of marsupials are found in Australia. Being close together, New Guinea and Australia would have been one of the last to separate. The long-beaked echidna of New Guinea would have adapted to the high terrain and humid conditions of the island, while the short-beaked echidna of Australia developed ina way that enabled it to live virtually anywhere on the flatter, drier, continent.

The short-beaked echidna occurs mainly in Australia, where it is common throughout the mainland and the Australian island state of Tasmania, while the long-beaked echidna lives in New Guinea. There is a small pocket in southeast papue New Guinea where the short-beaked echidna is also found.

Yes. Echidnas are often subject to dog attacks or being hit by cars, so they need to be handled by wildlife carers. It is quite possible to pat an echidna: one just needs to pat in the direction the spines go, which is away from the echidna's head.

The echidna (Tachyglossus Aculeatus) was named after the Greek monster Echidna, who was half snake (reptile) and half woman (mammal). She was known as the "Mother of all Monsters" as most of the monsters in Greek mythology were said to have mothered by Echidna.

The most obvious reptilian characteristic of the echidna is that it lays eggs. The mammalian characteristics of the echidna is that they are warm-blooded, have fur, produce milk and suckle their young.

An echidna is part of the Monotreme group. The only other animal in that group in the Platypus.

For more information on Echidna the monster, see the related link.