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Spread the echidna love!
Hi Guys,
Platypus and echidna babies are considered to be the cutest… and some say the ugliest! You can make up your mind here, after seeing this wonderful series of images (By an exclusive permission of Australian photographer Den Whitton).
Den thinks “it’s unfair that the platypus gets all the fame when the echidna is just as weird, and even less understood. Spread the echidna love!”
Cheers,
Edwin
Puggle…
Baby echidna is called a “puggle” (puggle-licious!). Echidnas and the Platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, so all this cuteness (ugliness) actually hatched out of an egg: imagine this cute snout poking out of the shell…
Echidnas (or “spiny anteaters”) are toothless – they break open the termite nests and ants get stuck to their long sticky tongues. Just like porcupines and hedgehogs they curl into a ball when disturbed or frightened. Their eggs are incubated in a pouch, and the mother carries the baby until it starts to grow spines. Here’s an orphaned 30 days old echidna, without fur and spines yet: (Click to enlarge)
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Vulnerable… ticklish…
You can see the needles starting to grow:
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“Happiness is a well fed puggle”, says Den:
Platypus Babies!
Platypus is so weird looking, that it was considered a fraud when first discovered (somebody must’ve stuck a duck bill to a beaver’s body). A crazy concoction of bird parts (the bill), reptile internal organs, that is actually a mammal, swimming underwater for 10 minutes at a time.
Platypup o.O
Platypus babies are not called “puggle”, but they gotta have a cute name, so some suggest a name “platypup“.
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“When the Platypus lays eggs it is thought that she incubates them by resting them on her stomach and curling her tail over them.”
Platypus cuteness ends with childhood: The male platypus has venom (on a small spur on the backside of his hind legs) that is strong enough to kill a small dog, and very painful for humans.
(Source: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/10/platypus-and-echidna-babies.html)
Please also read:
The Platypus: Nature’s “Swiss Army Knife”, here
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Hi,
My name is Lainie. I am diong a project about platypuses for my Info Tech class.
I was hoping I could ask you a few questions about platypuses for my project.
Please email me back!
-Lainie
Hello Lainie,
Thanks for visiting our blog.
Lainie, you are welcome to ask us something.
But we not sure if we can answer your question or not
What we sure is we will do our best to find you the answer
Cheers,
Edwin & Hanna