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xoxoxoBruce 10-14-2008 05:03 PM
October 14, 2008: Echidna Puggle
 
Wiki says;
Quote:
Echidnas and the Platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The female lays a single soft-shelled, leathery egg twenty-two days after mating and deposits it directly into her pouch. Hatching takes ten days; the young echidna, called a puggle, then sucks milk from the pores of the two milk patches (monotremes have no nipples) and remains in the pouch for forty-five to fifty-five days, at which time it starts to develop spines. The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the puggle, returning every five days to suckle it until it is weaned at seven months.
http://cellar.org/2008/echidna.jpg

Weird, unique, ugly, it's got it all. :haha:

Cloud 10-14-2008 05:07 PM
full grown echidnas are pretty cute, but that baby . . .

BigV 10-14-2008 05:09 PM
For a recipe, see Eraserhead.

Pico and ME 10-14-2008 05:11 PM
It reminds me of this.

Sundae 10-14-2008 05:16 PM
Not ugly, no.
Vulnerable.
Gorgeous.

Oh, you meant the puggle :)
Yeah I did too.

How old is it at the cartoonish stage Bruce?

Aliantha 10-14-2008 05:40 PM
I was trying to figure out if that baby is a platypus or and echidna because it looks more like a platypus to me because of the 'beak' or snout. In my travels, I found the site below which I thought was interesting, and just goes to show that you can never trust wiki. ;)

From here:

Quote:
A baby platypus is not called a puggle, which seems to be a common misconception. There is no official name for a baby platypus, but a common suggested name is "platypup".

Elspode 10-14-2008 06:26 PM
If I had something spiny growing in my pouch, I'd dig a hole and dump it in there, too.

ZenGum 10-14-2008 06:50 PM
Nothing to see here folks, move along.

BeltNah 10-14-2008 08:53 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 493717)
I was trying to figure out if that baby is a platypus or and echidna because it looks more like a platypus to me because of the 'beak' or snout. In my travels, I found the site below which I thought was interesting, and just goes to show that you can never trust wiki. ;)

From here:
All the photos are of an Echidna not a Platypus. A baby Echidna is called a Puggle. ;)

Chocolatl 10-14-2008 09:20 PM
For some reason, every time I look at the picture in the top right, it reminds me of a cornish game hen.

I don't know if it's my monitor or my eyes playing tricks on me, but does the puggle have eyes and/or eyelids? It seems like there are just dark spots where the eyes should be...

newtimer 10-15-2008 01:17 AM
One of nature's perfect animals. It comes with lots of built-in toothpicks, which is convenient because barbecued echidna is so stringy!

Aliantha 10-15-2008 02:35 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BeltNah (Post 493800)
All the photos are of an Echidna not a Platypus. A baby Echidna is called a Puggle. ;)
Obviously a contentious issue then huh. :)

xoxoxoBruce 10-15-2008 03:05 AM
Only for people that think that's not an Echidna. :rolleyes:

http://www.faunarescue.org.au/echidna.html

ZenGum 10-15-2008 03:18 AM
That's not an echidna ...... This is an echidna.

Thanks for the set up, Bruce!



From Bruce's link:
Quote:
It is common to see echidnas blowing bubbles from their nostrils.

SPUCK 10-15-2008 04:12 AM
It does have everything!! Even a nice digital SLR Camera. :neutral:


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