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Home / Science / Biology / Flora and Fauna / Animalia / Chordata / Mammalia / Monotremata / Echnidnas
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- Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus bruijni) - Brief summary of facts about this endangered echidna from New Guinea.
www.panda.org/resources/publications/species/underthreat/page11.htm
- Rainforest Echidna - Description and photos of Tachyglossus aculeatus, courtesy of Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodge, Atherton Tableland, Far North Queensland.
www.rainforest-australia.com/echidna.htm
- Short-beaked Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus - Photo and brief description. Includes the animal's name in three Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland: Oykangand, Olkola and Pakanh.
www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2970/echidna.htm
- Stewart Nicol - Researcher outlines his interests in hibernation physiology of the echnidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) and other animals. Includes MPEG movie of Dr. Nicol excavating a hibernating echidna.
www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/medicine/staff/nicol/SN.html
- The Echidna - Brief description, with drawings and photos, of these spine covered, insectivorous, monotreme mammals occurring in two genera: Zaglossus or Proechidna of New Guinea and Tachyglossus of Australia and southern New Guinea.
www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/medicine/teaching/physiol/mono/Echidna-basic.html
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