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Echidna

 

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*** "The echidnas possess some remarkable features. Perhaps most striking is their extraordinarily large and complex brains and relatively high intelligence, characteristics entirely unexpected in the world's most reptile-like mammals." (Flannery 1995)

 

*** The front of the long-beaked echidna's tongue is equipped with "spikes" located in a groove. The echidna probes with its long beak until the end of a worm is found. The tongue is then extruded and the worm hooked by these spikes. The worm and tongue are then withdrawn and the worm swallowed by muscular action of the tongue.

 

*** The echidnas and the duck-billed platypus differ from all other mammals in that they lay shell-covered eggs that are incubated and hatched outside of the body of the mother.

 

*** The spines on its body can be erected and its arms and legs withdrawn, as a hedgehog does.

 

Countries Where the Long-beaked Echidna Is Currently Found:

 

2004: Occurs in Indonesia (Irian Jaya) and Papua New Guinea. (IUCN 2004)

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