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	echidna, in zoology
		A short-legged, grayish brown animal, the echidna is covered with sharp quills and can protect itself by rolling into a tight bristly ball.
		There are two genera and several species of echidna; all are native to the sandy and rocky areas of New Guinea, E Australia, and Tasmania.
		Echidnas are not closely related to true anteaters, which are higher mammals.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0816691.html (164 words)

	Zeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Certain modes of ritual were held in common as well: sacrificing a white animal over a raised altar, for instance.
		They also received offerings of fl animal victims sacrificed into sunken pits, as did chthonic deities like Persephone and Demeter, and also the heroes at their tombs.
		He vanquished Typhon and trapped him under a mountain, but left Echidna and her children alive as challenges for future heroes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zeus (3035 words)

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		According to electroencephalograph recordings of sleep states in animals, it is possible to believe that some animals dream.
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		The fact that large animals tend to have little sleep is understandable, since the larger animals studied (cow, horse, donkey, elephant) must spend large amounts of time foraging.
	www.cerebromente.org.br /n02/mente/animais_i.htm (308 words)

	Wombat Information Center - Wombat References
		Association that cares for and rehabilitates native Australian animals.
		Animal Diversity Web Information about the family Vombatidae (wombats).
		CNN.com Wombat worries: Odd-looking animal threatened in native Australia.
	www.wombania.com /wombats/wombat-references.htm (643 words)

	Australian Wildlife Feature Story - Short-beaked Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		the long-beaked echidna lives in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and eats mainly earthworms so it is affected by clearing of forests
		a threatened echidna pulls its head in and curls into a ball to protect its belly so that all that is presented is a ball of spines
		Echidnas of Australia and New Guinea, M Augee and B Gooden, 1993.
	www.australianwildlife.com.au /features/echidna.htm (1011 words)

	R-Zu-2-U - Animal Terms: Male, Female, Group, Baby, Other
		In addition, we have just added and continue to work on a sixth column that includes many different terms that relate to specific animals (and or plants) that are interesting but not necessarily in the first categories.
		Additionally, animals are referred to by different terms in other countries (or even local communities).
		Also, in many species, young are called 'whelps', chits etc., males and females that have reproduced are called sires and dams respectively, and a group of related young are called a litter.
	www.treasureranch.com /treasure/rzuinfofiles/terms.html (458 words)

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