Echidna - animal, which in appearance resembles a porcupine, lays eggs like a bird is a baby in the pouch like a kangaroo, and eats like an anteater.However, the platypus is an animal refers to a mammal that lays eggs.
Habitat
Echidna (animal), a habitat that has spread only in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and can live in captivity.It adapts well to any environment, so now it can be seen not only in the original environment, but also around the world.
Appearance
Animal viper photo which shows, has a length of about 40 centimeters.Her back is covered with wool and needles.The head is relatively small immediately goes into the body.Roth is presented in the form of tube-shaped beak, a small hole which is a long sticky tongue.The beak is the main body for land navigation as very weak eyesight.
animal moves on four short five-fingered paws, which are distinguished by their muscularity.On the fingers are long claws, and rear leg rising five-centimeter claw, which are especially combing their needles.Also covered with spines and a short tail.
Echidna (animal), the disclosure of which is presented, is a squat, prickly little mammal, it is very cleverly digs the ground and has a tubular long beak.
way of life in the subtropical zone (Australia) vipers increasingly behave in the summer night.In the afternoon during the hottest hours, they are placed in the shade and relax.By nightfall, the animals feel cool and go out of their shelters.
in cold areas of the continent possible frosts.In this case, the viper inhibit their ability to live up to the onset of heat.Animals do not belong to the species that hibernate.But in the winter for a certain time, they can still sleep.Lead
they usually nocturnal or crepuscular lifestyle.During the day they hide in cool places.These shelters can be a natural depression in the ground, hollow trees, bushes.
Echidna - an animal that has a fantastic skill.It helps him to dig the earth and produce their own food.
Power
main food for animals are ants.With his beak echidna skillfully dig the ground and get their insects from termite mounds and ant hills.
When an animal shows an anthill, immediately starts to dig its sharp claws.The work does not stop until it will dig a deep tunnel up to the destruction of the hard outer layer of the structure.
The tunnel has done a viper (animal) puts his long tongue, which were arrayed set of biting ants.It remains only to quickly return to the language in the mouth with food.In addition to the ants in the digestive system gets earth, sand, bark of trees.
This diet is very important for a mammal that lives in arid zones.With ants echidna gets 70% moisture.Likewise, anteaters and armadillos survive.
If the food in the habitat of mammals enough, they do not change it.If necessary, they can get away for a few kilometers.
Reproduction
In ordinary life, the echidna - a solitary animal.Communication with other individuals occurs only in the mating season.To find each other, they use special paths that are labeled specific smell.
behavior during the mating period is not fully understood.We only know that after fertilization, the female produces an egg no more than 15 millimeters in diameter.Then she puts it in the bag with the help of the tail and the peritoneum.Scientists have not been known to the postponement of two or more eggs, but to talk about the rule of one egg is also impossible.
Echidna - marsupial.Bag the female is not considered a permanent body like a kangaroo.It is a result of stress certain muscles.At the same time if you give the female a sedative, this body will disappear in a few minutes.
From eggs in a bag appears cub, the size of 12 millimeters.He neprisposoblen for independent living: skin is covered with a primary, blind, fed their mother's milk.The bag he lived until he begins to weigh about 400 grams.Next
female cub hiding in a hole or in the bush.A day later, she visits him for a feeding.This age is considered the most dangerous for the animal because it is still vulnerable.
way of feeding a baby echidna
is in the bag, baby do not leave it until the mother decides to pull it out.He feeds it milk, which has a pinkish color and is very thick consistency.This is similar to the nutrient mixture rabbits and dolphins.
Enters milk in a bag through numerous holes from special glands.Babe licks it.The nutritional quality of the mixture is allowed to adhere to a strict schedule is not in feeding.This is important when the mother pulls the baby out of the bag and hid it in the woods.
Remedies
Home remedies are a shield with needles and nails.Natural enemies, known to scientists, the animal does not.But there are cases when the dingo attack echidnas and ate them together with the shield from the needle.One was found dead with a python stuck prickly animals in it.
At sensation of danger viper (animal cautious) quickly begins to dig around and within minutes hiding in a hole, leaving a mind only their needles.On a hard surface, it folds up into a ball, hiding the face and beak.The last remedy is stinking fluid produced in the event of serious danger to the person who dared to disturb him.
