Animal of the Day: Echidna!

Echidnas are named after a monster of Greek mythology and are also nicknamed "spiny anteaters", though they are not particularly closely related to anteaters. Echidnas are the only mammals, besides platypuses, that lay eggs. They live in Australia (basically Australia has the coolest animals) and New Guinea. They have an elongated snout making their skull resemble that of an odd bird or like those creepy doctor masks form the bubonic plague. Echidnas eat ants and termites with their sticky tongues, they have no teeth. Like platypi, echidnas have no nipples so they feed their young with their two milk patches. Also like platypi, the male echidna have spurs on their hind legs. Echindas have been recorded to live up to 50 years in captivity. The reproductive part on the male is very interesting but I will leave it up to the reader to read about that on wikipedia and keep my blog on the mild side of things.