Meet our featured animal, the short-beaked echidna!
Here are five fun facts about echidnas:
- Baby echidnas are called puggles! [Check out this adorable puggle from the Taronga Western Plains Zoo.]
- Echidnas are monotremes, or mammals that lay eggs.
- Their long spines are made of keratin, the same material that makes up our fingernails.
- The echidna’s pointy snout can sense electrical signals from insect bodies.
- Echidnas do not have teeth, but they do have horny pads in their mouths and on the back of their tongues which grind the prey.
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You mean prickly. Up in that picture it looks like spikes.
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spikes R poisonous, with death.
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