Zaglossus. The western long-beaked echidna is an egg-laying mammal. Unlike the short-beaked echidna, which eats ants and termites, the long-beaked species eats...
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and western long-beaked echidna species are listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. The long-beaked echidna is larger than the short-beaked and has...
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The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), also known as the short-nosed echidna, is a spiny anteater native to Australia. It is one of four living...
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The eastern long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bartoni), also known as Barton's long-beaked echidna, is one of three species from the genus Zaglossus to occur...
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are Western long-beaked echidna (Z. bruijni), of the highland forests; Sir David's long-beaked echidna (Z. attenboroughi), discovered by Western science...
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Zaglossus attenboroughi (redirect from Sir David's long-beaked echidna)
Zaglossus attenboroughi, also known as Attenborough's long-beaked echidna or locally as Payangko, is one of three species from the genus Zaglossus that...
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setosus (Tasmanian short-beaked echidna) Genus Zaglossus Sir David's long-beaked echidna, Z. attenboroughi Eastern long-beaked echidna, Z. bartoni Z. b. bartoni...
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Megalibgwilia (redirect from Echidna ramsayi)
to have been similar in size to the contemporary western long-beaked echidna, but with slightly longer forearms. They were smaller than a large species...
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echidnae: short-beaked echidna long-beaked echidnae: Sir David's long-beaked echidna eastern long-beaked echidna western long-beaked echidna Definition Extension...
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Murrayglossus (redirect from Giant echidna)
around 1 metre (3.3 ft) long and weighing around 20–30 kilograms (44–66 lb). Historically treated as a species of long-beaked echidnas, it was separated into...
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and its extinct relatives. The other family is the Tachyglossidae, or echidnas. Within the Ornithorhynchidae are the main Cenozoic genera Ornithorhynchus...
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Mammals in Western Australia include both native and introduced species. Family: Tachyglossidae Genus: Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, T. aculeatus...
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Society. 24 (1): 1–32. doi:10.2307/3231954. JSTOR 3231954. Long Beaked Echidna Long Beaked Echidna Archived 2013-11-10 at the Wayback Machine. rarestzoo.blogspot...
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Platypus (category CS1: long volume value)
number of electroreceptors in the short-beaked echidna, which dwells in dry environments, while the long-beaked echidna, which lives in moist environments...
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(echidnas) Genus Tachyglossus (short-beaked echidna) Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) Genus Zaglossus (long-beaked echidnas) Western long-beaked...
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monotremes (i.e. echidnas and platypuses, which have a beak-like structure), sirens, pufferfish, billfishes and cephalopods. Although beaks vary significantly...
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John Tunney (naturalist) (category People from Kojonup, Western Australia)
tunneyi. Amongst the specimens he collected was an echidna, later identified as the western long-beaked echidna Zaglossus bruijnii. A later paper concluded that...
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Knuckles the Echidna is a character from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series. He is a red anthropomorphic short-beaked echidna who is Sonic's secondary best...
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List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene (redirect from List of extinct flora of Western Australia)
Lauren (28 December 2012). "Twentieth century occurrence of the Long-Beaked Echidna Zaglossus bruijnii in the Kimberley region of Australia". ZooKeys...
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progression of technology is the journey of the now extinct western long-beaked echidna and its attempt to find it a mate like itself to prevent disappearing...
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Electroreception and electrogenesis (category CS1: long volume value)
methods. Western long-beaked echidnas feed on earthworms in leaf litter in tropical forests, wet enough to conduct electrical signals well. Short-beaked echidnas...
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Pleistocene rewilding (category CS1: long volume value)
Extant outside Australia Western long-beaked echidna (specimen collected in the early 20th century in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, a possible...
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kangaroo, black-tailed wallaby, koala brush-tailed possum, and short-beaked echidna. Over 160 bird species have been sighted in the nature conservation...
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beaked whale) Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's beaked whale) Mesoplodon ginkgodens (ginkgo-toothed beaked whale) Mesoplodon grayi (Gray's beaked...
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and echidnas. Family: Tachyglossidae (echidnas) Genus: Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, T. aculeatus LC Genus: Zaglossus Sir David's long-beaked echidna...
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(possibly extinct) Sunda pangolin Chinese pangolin Attenborough's long-beaked echidna Bird's Head long-beaked echidna Subspecies Sumatran elephant Subpopulations Juliana's...
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Fauna of New Guinea (category Fauna of Western New Guinea)
echidna (Zaglossus bartoni), the western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijni) and Sir David's long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi). No living...
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Further species include Mantou's riflebird and two mammal species: western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijnii ) and lowland brush mouse (Pogonomelomys...
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Yinotheria (category CS1: long volume value)
(Western Long-beaked/Bruinj's/Brown False Echidna) Zaglossus attenboroughii Flannery & Groves 1998 (Attenborough's/Sir David's/Cyclops Long-beaked Echidna)...
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Barry Otto as The Echidna, an echidna who helps the Band get to Ga'Hoole. Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson as Jatt and Jutt, two long-eared owl cousins...
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