The Echidna is unique to Australia so it's automatically cooler than its more common cousins, the Platypus or Anteater, which are found all over. (WIKI: Echidna)
Maybe interesting to you is, surprisingly for Australia, the Echidna is a mammal not a marsupial but it lays eggs and this combination makes it one seriously confused little beastie.
If that one wasn't cute enough for you then how about this baby one.
See, it's like this. Life goes up and down and sometimes you just end up stuck in the water bowl.
Check out those claws as Echidnas are great little diggers and you only thought you had a problem with Moles in your yard. A Mole will probably weigh no more than a few grams but an Echidna weighs probably about a kilo.
Like the American Indians, echidnas walk single file to hide their numbers.
Ed: is that really why they do that?
Who knows but it seems as good a reason as any.
The biggest problem with echidnas is making more of them since lovemaking seems it should be fatal for the male. If the female gets excited then her spines rise and the male gets skewered?
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