Monday 18 June 2012

Echidna

Echidna

Echidnas or spiny anteaters can grow to about 40cm long and weigh up to 7 kilograms. It has a bare, tube-like snout and a long, sticky tongue. The feet are dark and have a set of powerful black claws. The second claw on each hind foot is the elongated and is used to scratch and groom between its spines. It is covered by short, black hairs amongst the hard, sharp spines. These spines may reach 50mm long on the back but are shorter on the sides. Along with the platypus, echidnas are monotremes, strange mammals that lay eggs and then suckle their young.

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna


Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

Echidna

 



















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