Title | Description |
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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... |