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    The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), also called the short-nosed echidna, is one of four living species of echidna, and the only member of...
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    electroreceptors on its bill, but the long-beaked echidna has only 2,000, while the short-beaked echidna, which lives in a drier environment, has no...
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    long-beaked echidna, and has short, very fine and dense fur, reflecting its mountain-top habitat. The diet of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna consists...
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    Murrayglossus and Megalibgwilia. The long-beaked echidna is larger-bodied than the short-beaked and has fewer, shorter spines scattered among its coarse hairs...
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    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 earthworms...
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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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    The Tasmanian short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus) is a subspecies of short-beaked echidna endemic to Tasmania. It was first described...
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    Monotreme (category Articles with short description)
    echidnas Genus Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, T. aculeatus T. a. aculeatus (Common short-beaked echidna) T. a. acanthion (Northern short-beaked echidna)...
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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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    thought 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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  • Enumerative definition (category Articles with short description)
    echidnae: short-beaked echidna long-beaked echidnae: Sir David's long-beaked echidna eastern long-beaked echidna western long-beaked echidna Definition...
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    Featherdale Wildlife Park (category Articles with short description)
    park's collection includes kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, short-beaked echidnas, quokkas, bilbies, dingos, bats, emus, southern cassowaries, little...
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    Platypus (category Articles with short description)
    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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  • The echidna flea (Bradiopsylla echidnae) is the larger of two species of flea commonly found on the short-beaked echidna. It is monotypic, that is, the...
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    Fauna of Australia (category Articles with short description)
    monotreme occur in Australia: the platypus and the short-beaked echidna, the other three being echidnas that only occur in New Guinea. Monotremes differ...
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    Adelaide Zoo (category Articles with short description)
    mara Quokka Red kangaroo Rhinoceros iguana Ring-tailed lemur Serval Short-beaked echidna South American coati Southern cassowary Southern hairy-nosed wombat...
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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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    Ornithorhynchidae (category Articles with short description)
    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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    Ornithorhynchoidea (category Articles with short description)
    of mammals containing the only living monotremes, the platypus and the echidnas, as well as their closest fossil relatives, to the exclusion of more primitive...
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  • Healesville Sanctuary (category Articles with short description)
    bred) Red tailed black cockatoo Koalas Area Koala Parma wallaby Short-beaked echidna Tasmanian pademelon Birds of the bush Eastern whipbird Fan-tailed...
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    Kalbarri National Park (category Articles with short description)
    interior include the western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus), short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) and spinifex hopping mouse (Notomys alexis)...
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    Cloaca (redirect from Anal beak)
    (2016). Chemical cues, hibernation and reproduction in female short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus): implications for sexual conflict...
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  • List of monotremes and marsupials (category Articles with short description)
    Tachyglossidae (echidnas) Genus Tachyglossus (short-beaked echidna) Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) Genus Zaglossus (long-beaked echidnas) Western...
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  • Mammals of Australia (category Articles with short description)
    living species of monotreme occur in Australia: the platypus and the short-beaked echidna. The platypus — a venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed, amphibious mammal...
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    Meat ant (category Articles with short description)
    of animals. A number of predators eat these ants, including the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), numerous species of birds, blind snakes...
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    Australia Zoo (category Articles with short description)
    Quokka Red kangaroo Red panda Red-necked wallaby Ring-tailed lemur Short-beaked echidna Southern hairy-nosed wombat Southern white rhinoceros Sumatran elephant...
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    Thylacine (category Articles with short description)
    with other recorded prey including the Tasmanian pademelon and the short-beaked echidna. Other probable native mammalian prey includes other marsupials like...
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    Frank Hann National Park (category Articles with short description)
    boundaries. The park also supports an array of mammals including short-beaked echidna, the western quoll, Gilbert's dunnart, the honey possum, the western...
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    List of mammals of Tasmania (category Articles with short description)
    Ornithorhynchus anatinus LC Family: Tachyglossidae Genus: Tachyglossus Short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus LC Family: Thylacinidae Genus: Thylacinus...
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    Mammal (category Articles with short description)
    clade consisting of the most recent common ancestor of living monotremes (echidnas and platypuses) and therian mammals (marsupials and placentals) and all...
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