🦔 Echidna – А Маmmal That Lays Eggs! 🌏🥚
The echidna is a strange and awesome creature covered in spines!
It’s one of only two mammals in the world that lays eggs — the other is the platypus! 🥚🦆
🧬 What Does It Look Like?
- Covered in sharp spines like a walking pincushion! 🌵🦔
- Long, sticky tongue for catching ants and termites 👅🐜
- Tiny eyes and a long, pointy snout 👀👃
- Strong claws for digging tunnels and food holes! 🧱🕳️
🌍 Where Does It Live?
- Forests, deserts, and mountains 🏜️🌲
- Found in Australia and New Guinea 🦘🌴
- Hides under logs, rocks, or digs into the ground! ⛺🐾
🍴 What Does It Eat?
- Ants and termites 🐜🪲
- Uses its tongue like a sticky noodle to slurp them up! 🍝👅
- No teeth — it crushes food with hard pads in its mouth! 😮🍽️
👨👩👧👦 Family Life
- Lays a soft egg and keeps it in a pouch! 🥚👛
- Baby echidnas are called puggles! 🐣💛
- The mom feeds the baby with milk from special skin spots (no nipples!) 🍼😲
🎉 Fun and Silly Facts
- Echidnas can curl into a ball when scared! 🌀😱
- They can dig super fast — like furry drills! 🛠️🐾
- Have electrosensors in their snouts to find food ⚡👃
- They’re super old — like, dinosaur-days old! 🦕🧓
🦊 Bat-Eared Fox – The Big-Eared Listener of the Savanna! 🌾
DNA Identification: genetic “fingerprints”
