Echidna Gallery

Here is a collection of photographs and artwork based on my favourite little pin cushion...

Title Description
Little Digger An echidna doing what echidnas do best...
Thirsty Work Echidnas don't need to drink often (they get most of their water from their food), but they DO drink...
Curious... A nosey little fellow...
Ball A traditional echidna defence position
Sitting Up Echidnas will sit up on their rumps for grooming, but not for long as it exposes their vulnerable bellies
Time For A Nap This guy seems to have run out of pep
Tail Like the rest of it, the echidna's tail is covered with spines
Prickle-Backed Echidna spines seem to interlock across its back
Out For A Walk An echidna strolling
Nosey Echidnas are incredibly curious creatures
Youngster A fairly young echidna...with few natural predators it could live well over 50 years
Foraging Echidnas spend most of their days looking for food
It's An Uphill Struggle Echidnas aren't usually very fast but they can still transverse great distances
Winter Wonderland And who said Australia was a sunburnt country?
Man, It's Hot... Then again...
Beach Baby Echidnas are Australia's most wide spread fauna...from beach
Desert Digger ...to desert...
Bush Baby ...to forest
Cooling Off ...the only way an echidna can
Handle With Care... ...those spines are sharp!
I'm Outta Here It's almost impossible to keep an echidna when it doesn't want to be kept
Climber Echidnas are capable climbers
Blondie Echidnas come in a variety of colours...blondes...
Colour Diversity ...brunettes...and yes...redheads
I'm Ready For My Closeup... This is actually from an advertisement for fabric softener...
He May Look Soft... ...but don't be fooled...
Following The Leader... An echidna mating train
...the leader.... another train
...wherever she may go... This is generally the only time you'll see echidnas together
Aren't They Sweet? Young echidnas in love...
New Life An echidna egg
Candle Lighted Held up to a light, the developing puggle can be seen through the shell
In The Pouch The echidna mother lays the egg directly into the pouch where it incubates for just over 10 days
Comparission An American dime and Australian 5 cent piece show that the echidna egg is fairly small
New To The World The puggle breaks through its leathery shell with a tiny egg tooth...the only tooth it will ever have
Baby Mine A newly hatched puggle...it's so tiny...
New Born The fingernail shows just how small a newborn puggle is
2 Days Old... And it's kinda hard to even figure out what it is...
11 Days... And the back legs are formed
They Grow Up So Fast This puggle is nearly two months old (is it just me...or does it look kinda like a bald mole?)
How Cute... At about three months it's starting to look like an echidna (though I still think it looks like a mole...)
Chubby Bubby The mother only feeds her baby once every 5 days, when it will consume 40% of its body weight in milk
Juvenile Echidna When the puggle is weaned it is left to fend for itself
The Echidna Foot... The long claw, to get in through the spines, is used for grooming...the spur? Who knows...
Foot Prints Definite proof for you artists out there that echidnas have five digits on each paw...
Forefoot The echidna's feet were designed for digging
Hindfoot The spur and grooming claw are easily seen here
Now That's Impressive... The echidna tongue is extremely long...
The Invisible Echidna An X-Ray view...
Big Cousin... The long-beaked echidna of Papua New Guinea
Milly One of the Sydney Olympic mascots...and arguably the most popular...
Portrait A painting by Rachel Lewis
The Echidna And The Robin A painting by Ainslie Roberts based on the Dreamtime myth
Quilted Echidna This handmade quilt was made for a charity auction...it was sold for over $1000!
Traditional Bark Painting By Aboriginal artist Dick Nguleingulei Murramarru
Painted Trio By Aboriginal artist Yirawala
Echidna And Snake By an unknown Aboriginal artist
Echidna And Axeman By Aboriginal artist Jimmi Gunwinggu
Echidna Statue By an unknown Aboriginal artist to be used in a traditional Echidna dance
I Made This... It's a print done by scratching into paint on a plane of glass...





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