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echidna

i kid nuh

  • n  a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
  • n  a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia

  • Stopping at the Taronga Park Zoo for a photo op with local wildlife, Harry struggled to get a safe grip on this echidna.
  • This long-beaked echidna, a primitive egg-laying mammal, was one of two found on the expedition that were so unafraid that they allowed scientists pick them up and take them back .
  • He has been knighted and fted, of course (and honored by having a wondrously weird New Guinea spiky anteater named Attenborough's long-beaked echidna).

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