Short-beaked Echidna


Short-beaked Echidna They live a silent life, but they can be seen at daytime along the tracks: Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), showing pretty much the same behaviour an European hedgehog would. When feeling detected, they would coil together rely on their sharp spines. Some have more courage and simply keep going to follow their daily business. My very narrow statistics say the Tasmanian subspecies is the guttier one as it was ready to pose for my pics while all the specimen I found in Victoria tryed to hide from humans and their cameras. Also, and this is a well-known fact, the Tasmanian subspecies has fewer spines and more fur to keep them warm.





Short-beaked Echidna

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