Saturday, November 19, 2016

Until You Love a Puggle, What Love Can There Really Be

We live with the ghastly situation in which so few are aware of puggle love but there's no shame in it now.

Love a puggle.



Maybe you ask wtf is a puggle and, verily, a puggle is a baby spiny anteater or an Australian echidna.

NO, it is not a potential pet.  Those claws are for digging and they get much bigger.

There's more interest than otherwise in these puggles because they were born at the Taronga Park Zoo, the first big zoo I ever saw as a kid, and I remember it had so many Really Big Animals.  I think that's where they had about a billion flamingos too.  (Metro:  Stop what you’re doing and look at these tiny echidna puggles)

The Taronga Zoo in Sydney is probably the biggest in Australia and even there they have had difficulty breeding echidna.  It's been twenty-nine years since the last time so it's a good bet there are some seriously happy puggle shepherds down there right about now.

There is quite a bit of contention online that any baby of a marsupial is called a 'joey' but we see that's not true with echidna so the next question is what else do they call a baby koala bear?

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