An Icredible Animal
Description: An Echidna
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Echidnas are small mammals that are covered with coarse hair and spines. Superficially they resemble the anteaters of South America and other spiny mammals like hedgehogs and porcupines. They have snouts which have the functiοns of both mouth and nose. Their snouts are elongated and slender. They have very short, strong limbs with large claws and are powerful diggers. Echidnas have a tiny mouth and a toothless jaw. The long-beaked echidnas have tiny spines on their tongues that help capture their prey.
Female echidna develops a pouch at the start of the mating season which occurs in July and August.
3 weeks or so after matting the female digs a burrow and lays 1 soft leathery like egg into this pouch.
1.-What were echidnas in the Greek mythology?
2.-Where do they live?
3. Who are their parents in the mammals?
4.-How do they feed their babies?
5.-Do they live in the deserts?
6.-How are their babies called?
7.-Where do they have a spur?
