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October 14 at 5:47 pm
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"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." - Benjamin Golub
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1) the baby (puggle) looks like that crab alien thing in Half-life that turns people into zombies. 2) the adult likes Canon. - Benjamin Golub
Last echidna I saw was stuck on the central reservation of the Princes Highway, south of Sydney, after the Easter long weekend. I hope he made it. - Neil Saunders
呀，好可爱的小鸭嘴兽。 - Aether
Those are some of the ugliest little things! - Brynn M Evans
Puggle is such a cute word - anna
A puggle! Cute and disgusting at the same time. And what is the mama echidna doing for the 5 days it leaves the burrow? Is she down the pub, smoking and buying scratch cards with her family allowance?! - WorldofHiglet