Animal Fact Guide Meet our featured animal, the short-beaked echidna!
Here are five fun facts about echidnas:
Baby echidnas are called puggles! [Check out this adorable puggle from the Taronga Western Plains Zoo.] Echidnas are monotremes, or mammals that lay eggs. Their long spines are made of keratin, the same material that makes up our fingernails. The echidna’s pointy snout can sense electrical signals from insect bodies. Echidnas do not have teeth, but they do have horny pads in their mouths and on the back of their tongues which grind the prey.The post Featured Animal: Short-beaked Echidna appeared first on Animal Fact Guide.
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