Nature Facts

Echidna

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Echidna Facts:

They look a lot like anteaters and other spiny mammals such as hedgehogs and porcupines.
They will tear apart soft logs, anthills and use its long, sticky tongue, to collect prey.
An Echidna tongue can reach 18 cm long – and it can flick it out to catch ants a 100 times a minute!
They can eat about 40,000 individual ants / termites a day.
They are equipped with electrosensors (That’s the ability to sense natural electrical stimuli-which helps them locate food like ants).
Echidnas and the platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes.
The Echidna will lay one egg.
The have pouches like kangaroos!
They are timid animals when they feel threatened they will ball themselves up or bury themselves.
Their claws are are curved backwards to help them dig.

Stats:

Average Length: 14in – 20in
Average Weight: 9lbs – 15lbs
Top Speed: 1.4mph (2.3kph)
Life Span: Up to 50 years
Location: Australia & New Guinea
Color: Brown, Black, White
Favorite Foods: Ants, termites, larvae, worms