Echidnas are spiny mammals found in Australia. They have a long snout without teeth used to catch their main food of termites with their long, sticky tongue. For defense, echidnas can run on short legs, curl into a ball exposing only spines, or burrow underground showing only spiny backs. Females develop pouches to lay one soft egg after mating season from July to August.
2. ¿Echidna?
• Echidna have shaped snout tip. This animals
are without teeth and a long tongue. Their
bodies, are about 30 to 90 inches. Echidna are
two tipes of hair, one with thorns, and the
other more long.
3. ¿What are they eat?
• Termites are their main food.
• Once found the food, trapping the prey with
its long, sticky tongue.
4. ¿Where are they live?
• They live in Australia from the highlands to
deserts to forests.
5. ¿defence?
• There is normally 3 options open to an
Echidna when it feels threatened1) Run away
on its short stubby legs if on a hard surface
such as a road or rocks2) Curl itself into a ball
protecting its softer underbelly, and only
showing sharp spines to its threat.3) Burrows
down below the surface of the soil showing
only its spines along its back, and holding on
below the surface with its claws thus resisting
being pulled out of the ground
6. ¿freeding?
• The female Echidna develops a pouch at the
start of the mating season which occurs in July
and August.3 weeks or so after matting the
female digs a burrow and lays 1 soft leathery
like egg into this pouch.
