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	Short-beaked Echidna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Short-beaked Echidnas are typically 30 to 45 centimetres in length, have a 75-millimetre snout, and weigh between two and five kilograms.
		The Short-beaked Echidna has the largest prefrontal cortex with respect to body size of any mammal, it shows rapid eye movement during sleep, and its brain has been shown to contain a claustrum that is similar to placental mammals, linking this structure to their common ancestor.
		The underside of a female Short-beaked Echidna; the pouch which carries her eggs is shown in the middle of the abdomen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Short-beaked_Echidna (2863 words)

	Echidnas
		The short, stout limbs of an echidna are well-suited for scratching and digging in the soil.
		Echidnas have been known to live for as long as 16 years in the wild, but generally their life span is thought to be under 10 years.
		Echidnas are usually found among rocks, in hollow logs and in holes among tree roots.
	www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au /npws.nsf/Content/Echidnas (706 words)

	Short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus
		The short-beaked echidna, spiny anteater or "porcupine", Tachyglossus aculeatus (family Tachyglossidae) eats ants and termites, which are plentiful on the Peninsula.
		The echidna is important in material culture because its spines or quills are used as barbs when making certain spears, notably the porcupine spear and the bunched porcupine spear.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/2970/echidna.htm (74 words)

	Digimorph - Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna)
		Tachyglossus aculeatus, the short-nosed echidna, is one of three extant members of Monotremata, the others being Zaglossus bruijni and Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
		Observations on the skulls of fossil and extant echidnas (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae).
		Echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters, are covered by hollow spines that are essentially modified hairs.
	www.digimorph.org /specimens/Tachyglossus_aculeatus/skull (695 words)

	Medscape MEDLINE search: Echidna
		We have examined the cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the dorsal thalamus of the short beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), using Nissl and myelin staining, immunoreactivity for parvalbumin, calbindin, calretinin and non-phosphorylated neurofilament protein (SMI-32 antibody), and histochemistry for acetylcholinesterase and NADPH diaphorase.
		The cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the anterior olfactory nucleus and piriform cortex of the short-beaked echidna and platypus were studied to determine: (1) if these areas contain chemically distinct subdivisions, and (2) if the chemoarchitecture of those cortical olfactory regions differs from therians.
		We have examined the cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the temporal and extended amygdala in the brain of a monotreme (the short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus) using Nissl and myelin staining, enzyme histochemistry for acetylcholine esterase and NADPH diaphorase, immunohistochemistry for calcium binding proteins (parvalbumin, calbindin and calretinin) and tyrosine hydroxylase.
	search.medscape.com /uslclient/searchMedline.do?queryText=Echidna (1269 words)

	Radio-Tracking Long-Beaked Echidnas in Papua New Guinea
		Echidna species include the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), which lives in Australia and New Guinea, and the long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus spp.), which is a rare endemic found only in the highlands of New Guinea.
		However, long-beaked echidnas have shorter, weaker and fewer spines, making the same attachment method problematic (Figure 3).
		As this is the first recorded incidence of lactation for long-beaked echidnas in the wild, we do not know if breeding is seasonal, with a different seasonality to that of Australia, or if breeding is aseasonal in New Guinea.
	www.pacificbiological.org.au /projects/PBF_03_1/pbf_03_1.htm (722 words)

	Education Fact Sheets Echidna
		The echidna has strong, short limbs which are excellent for scratching and digging.
		Echidnas do not have teats, instead milk oozes out of the skin from the mammary glands and the young suckle the fur on the mother’s belly.
		Echidnas do not have teeth so they grind their food between hard plates on their tongue and the top of their mouth.
	www.arazpa.org.au /Education_FactSheets_Echidna.htm (601 words)

	Plants & Animals: Echidna
		Because the echidna does not have teats, the baby clings to specialised hairs within the pouch, where it suckles milk oozing from the mother's mammary glands.
		The echidna and platypus are the only members of a primitive group of mammals known as monotremes.
		Echidnas are toothless and feed almost exclusively on ants and termites.
	www.calm.wa.gov.au /plants_animals/odd_echidna.html (522 words)

	Endangered Species Report #9--The Long Beaked Echidna
		The long beaked echidna, like the short beaked echidna and the platypus, is one of nature's strangest creatures.
		Since scientists have commonly rejected the echidna as a subject worthy of research, it has gone virtually unprotected until 1974 when the population of the long beaked echidna in New Guinea had plummeted to 300,000.
		The young echidna doesn't become fully independent until they are a year old when they leave their mother and strike out on their own.
	www.hollyandjeremy.com /wildlife/esReports/report9.html (570 words)

	Wildlife of Sydney - Fact File - Short-beaked Echidna
		The Short-beaked Echidna is the only species of echidna in Australia and is easily recognised by its sharp spines, short legs and long snout.
		The Short-beaked Echidna has few natural enemies, but it may be killed by cars, dogs, foxes and occasionally goannas, and cats may take the young.
		Like the Platypus, the Short-beaked Echidna is an egg-laying mammal or monotreme and lays one egg at a time.
	faunanet.gov.au /wos/factfile.cfm?Fact_ID=296 (215 words)

	Short-beaked Echidna: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		The Short-beaked echidna is one of the 2 species of echidna.
		Short-beaked echidnas live alone,foraging during both the day and the night.
		The Short-beaked echidna lays a single egg with a leathery shell into a pouch on its abdomen, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/short-beaked_echidna.htm (189 words)

	Echidna more information
		This charming image of a short-beaked (or common) echidna or spiny anteater of Australia comes from the Watling Collection and is thought to have been drawn in Australia between 1788 and 1792.
		The Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)is a remarkable animal found in Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.
		The echidna's mouth is at the end of its snout; it extends its long tongue to catch ants and termites.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /library/art/drawingconclusions/more/echidna_more_info.htm (793 words)

	Echidnas
		The short-beaked echidna is smaller and lighter than the long-beaked echidna.
		When echidnas are hungry, they use their front claws to turn over soil in search of earthworms, insect larvae, and other small invertebrates, or to break open ants' and termites' nests.
		Echidnas have receptors all over their bodies to pick up signals sent out, uncontrollably and unknowingly, by all animals through their muscles and nerves.
	www.edhelper.com /AnimalReadingComprehension_103_1.html (682 words)

	Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections: Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
		The underside of the short, stubby tail is naked.
		It is believed that the snout is strong enough to crack open hollow logs and dig through forest litter to unearth ants and termites which are then caught by the echidna's sticky tongue.
		aculeatus will dig deeper into its burrow when disturbed, but of the ground proves to hard for digging, the echidna curls its entire body into a spiny ball.
	brainmuseum.org /Specimens/monotremata/echidna (479 words)

	Short-Beaked Echidna - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The egg hatches only about ten days later, but a young echidna stays in its mother’s pouch, feeding from milk “patches,” until its spines begin to develop.
		The female deposits a single egg in her pouch while lying on her back.
		If threatened, the animal curls up in a ball, offering a mouthful of sharp spikes to its attacker.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /media_461516529/Short-Beaked_Echidna.html (85 words)

	The Enigma of the Echidna - National Wildlife Magazine
		On a continent teeming with weird mammals, the echidna is one of the weirdest.
		Echidna spines lack barbs and are never thrown from the body.
		Their short legs, heavy, backward-pointing rear claws, and broad shoulders are well-suited to powerful digging.
	www.nwf.org /nationalwildlife/article.cfm?articleId=763&issueId=61 (2025 words)

	Natural History Collections: Echidna
		The short-beaked echidna has a long sticky tongue perfect for catching ants, its main prey, termites and insect larvae.
		The echidna also has a short tail which is easier to see in the skeleton.
		Echidnas are solitary animals, only coming together during the mating season, which lasts from two to three weeks in July to August.
	www.nhc.ed.ac.uk /index.php?page=24.134.165.167.174 (357 words)

	Short-beaked Echidna Photo TrekNature
		This is a Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), one of only three species of Monotreme, the others being the Long-beaked Echidna of Papua New Guinea and the Platypus.
		After this time the young Echidna has developed short spines and the female will leave the young in a crude nest while she goes to forage for food.
		Echidnas don’t have any teeth and their mouth has evolved into a long fused tubular ‘beak’.
	www.treknature.com /gallery/Oceania/Australia/photo27765.htm (579 words)

	Echidna
		The short-beaked echidna is found in Australia and the long beaked echidna is found in New Guinea.
		An echidna is covered with hair and with sharp spines on its back and sides.
		The echidna doesn't have teeth, but it has hard pads inside its mouth to grind up the ants and termites before swallowing them.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/echidnas.htm (228 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Short-beaked echidna, common echidna, spiny anteater
		BBC - Science and Nature - Wildfacts - Short-beaked echidna, common echidna, spiny anteater
		Echidnas and platypuses have the lowest body temperatures of any mammal, around 30 degrees centigrade, which also fluctuates a lot.
		When threatened, echidnas roll up in a ball or dig a hole so that only their spines are exposed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/680.shtml (407 words)

	Echidna
		The Echidna found in Australia is the Short-beaked Echidna and along with the Platypus are the only members of the monotreme family which are Mammals that lay eggs and produces milk for its young.
		Echidnas then normally tears into the mound or nest with its sharp claws (front feet) and its snout exposing the ants or termites and then catching them with its fast flicking sticky tongue.
		The Echidnas main requirement is a large supply of ants and termites so Echidnas are found all over Australia from the highlands to deserts to forests The Echidna has no fixed home except when the female is suckling its young.
	home.iprimus.com.au /readman/echidna.htm (602 words)

	Rainforest Echidna
		The short-beaked echidna is found in all habitats in Australia, from desert to snowy mountains to rainforest.
		The main difference between the two types of Echidna in Australia is that the Short-beaked Echidna eats ants and other colonial insects, and the Long-beaked Echidna forages in forest litter for earthworms and larger solitary insects.
		The echidna is a toothless animal, it invades an ant or termite nest with its forepaws or snout and extends its long tongue into the chambers.
	www.species.net /Echidna.html (1214 words)

	Welcome to Perth Zoo!
		The insects stick to the Echidna's sticky tongue and are drawn into its mouth where they are chewed up between a horny pad at the back of the tongue and a similar structure on its palate.
		The newly hatched Echidna (known as a puggle) is hairless, with virtually no hindlimbs, but relatively enormous forelimbs to help it climb around the pouch.
		Echidnas mate in July and August, when a single female may mate with up to 6 males.
	www.perthzoo.wa.gov.au /wildlife_facts_au_echidna.html (376 words)

	Discover Tasmania - fauna - short-beaked echidna
		Echidnas are common in the dry open country of Tasmania’s east coast.
		Echidnas are shy and move slowly and carefully.
		Echidnas and platypus are the only monotremes – mammals that lay eggs – in the world.
	www.discovertasmania.com.au /home/index.cfm?siteid=592 (341 words)

	Echidna Central - Echidnas on the Web
		The Australian "short-beaked" echidna is small spiked mammal, resembling a hedgehog and sometimes called the "spiky anteater." It lives all over Australia, from snow-capped mountains to deserts.
		The Echidna Topics page contains information on Conservation, Reproduction, the echidna's monotreme family, a special section on the long-beaked echidna, and more.
		New Guinea's forests holds another two or three species of "long-beaked" echidnas, which are larger and have longer snouts.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /echidnas (333 words)

	Echidna - Tachyglossus aculeatus
		In the southern parts of the continent where temperatures are much cooler the echidna has fur on the legs and between the quills.
		The platypus and the echidna are the two surviving members of the Order Monotremata.
		The echidna is one of our most successful creatures, being found throughout Australia including Tasmania.
	www.anhs.com.au /echidna.htm (52 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Echidna
		The short-beaked echidna’s Tachyglossus aculeatus dark fur is almost completely hidden by a covering of hollow, barbless quills, called spines, on its back and sides.
		The echidna (ih-KID-na), or spiny anteater, is an unusual mammal.
		The echidna at the San Diego Zoo is fed a “milkshake” made of ground-up leaf eater biscuits and dog kibble, with water added to form a thick paste to lick up.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-echidna.html (870 words)

	Free Echidna Short Beaked Links & Info
		Find echidna short beaked and more at Lycos Search.
		A combination of mammal, reptile, and marsupial, echidnas produce milk, but unlike mammals, they are egg-laying creatures and, like marsupials, they have a modified pouch for nurturing their young.
		The Echidna: Australia's EnigmaThe oldest surviving mammal on the planet is also one of the most intriguing.
	www.animals3d.info /animals/echidna-short-beaked.php (1083 words)

	Nature Feature - Echidna
		The short-beaked Echidna is a variable species occurring in aImost all Australian habitats and in the lowlands of New Guinea.
		Short-beaked Echidnas attain a length of 30 to 45 centimeters and a weight of between 2 and 7 kilograms.
		Both forms feed by means of a long, sticky tongue but, while the short-beaked Echidna eats ants and other colonial insects, the Long-beaked Echidna forages in forest litter, eating earthworms and larger solitary insects.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/feature/nature/echidna.htm (688 words)

	Short-beaked Echidna :: Saint Louis Zoo
		Short-beaked echidnas are popular with zoos, since they are the only representative of egg-laying mammals established in captivity.
		Echidnas spend the day holed up in quiet shelters, which can range from shallow burrows to hollow logs to cavities under rocks or roots.
		Echidnas and other monotremes are best known for the way their babies are born -- they hatch from eggs!
	www.stlzoo.org /animals/abouttheanimals/mammals/egglayingmammals/shortbeakedechidna.htm (1115 words)

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