The Australian echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus is adapted to an ant-eating lifestyle and lives in rocky, sandy and scrub areas, living in crevasses and self-dug burrows. Come out at dusk and night. Powerful claws for digging. Usually on the ground activities, encounter danger, can quickly dig into the ground, in an emergency will also roll into a thorn ball to protect themselves. Although they have some vision, they mainly rely on hearing and smell. In search of food, kiss forward, lifting the ground cover as you explore. The main food is ants and termites, which are caught with thin, mucous tongues and ground with a horny plate on the tongue and a stiff ridge at the top of the mouth.
The breeding habit of the Australian ecmole is very special. The female animal lays an egg with a leathery shell (about 1.4 to 1.7 cm in length and 1.3 to 1.5 cm in diameter) directly through the genital pore into the pouch, and about 10 days later, an immature young breaks out of the shell with a body length of about 12 mm and a weight of less than 0.5 grams. It lived on breast milk in the bag for about 2 months, grew thorns and was born a second time from the bag, but it was not yet able to live independently, and when the mother animal went out to search for food, it was placed in a safe place. During hibernation, the body temperature can drop close to the ambient temperature.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2015 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Not Threatened (LC).
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