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echidna

any of the spine-covered MONOTREME mammals of the family Tachyglossidae, found in Australia and New Guinea. They have a long snout and claws for digging out ants.

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The variety of animals here is astounding; prickly but irresistibly pettable echidnas, primitivelooking duck-billed platypus, wily snow-white cockatoos, and brazen kangaroos with a kick far more powerful than any kung-fu fighter, and a punch which could knock out a champion heavyweight.

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The puggle, as a baby echidna is called, hitchhikes for weeks as mom forages.

Mixed-up mammal mixes soil Down Under

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"Stunno's Surf Adventure" is a unique, exciting, fantastic tale of a surfing echidna, or Australian spiny anteater.

Stunno's Surf Adventure

I begin by reading Scylla as a monster of old, whose ruthlessness, rapacity, and association with the world of death bring her close to the Theogony's Echidna. Yet this comparison also reveals difference: Scylla is, in fact, not quite as formidable as the famous serpent-nymph.

Down through the gaping hole - and up the fig tree

We began living on the property in 1996 and often have seen diggings of the Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus.

Echidna trains in a fragmented forest environment

While I do not condone the eating of echidnas, Howitt's account of the taste of echidna is in some ways representative of a culture of paying attention to one's surroundings, of using all one's senses to "observe".

Seeing the trees and the forest: attending to Australian natural history as if it mattered

There are about five billion coins -- made from copper and nickel and stamped with images of the native echidna or spiny anteater -- in circulation in Australia.

Aussies lose $100 million in coins each year

Dressed in a pale blue shirt and navy shorts, he was also introduced to other native animals, including an echidna, spinifex hopping mice, and feathertail gliders - which he also tried to grab as they whizzed past him.

Baby George meets little bilby George..

Sonic and his three pals -- tinkering fox Tails, brutish echidna Knuckles and hammer-wielding hedgehog Amy -- are starring together in a new Nintendo 3DS and Wii U game, as well as a Cartoon Network series set for release later this year, called ''Sonic Boom.'' The games and TV series will share the new style, voice actors, locales, storylines and more.

Sonic undergoes makeover for new game, TV series

Wright-Violich is currently a principal and co-founder in an impact investing and philanthropic advising firm and acting president of Echidna Giving.

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Readers have to look very carefully, just as Nan told Simon to do, to find the butterfly, frog, gecko, echidna, owl, and stick insect concealed in the illustrations.