Echidna Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

This echidna was busy eating ants under the gravel of this relatively busy footpath round Dove Lake. Echidnas are quite shy and this one hid its face under the gravel. So I stopped and waited for it to lift its head before I took the picture.
Echidnas, like platypusses, are monotremes - the only known animals to lay eggs and to suckle their young.

Please check WS for better frame
Also check Lewis Butler (littlewelshboy)'s pic of an echidna.

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Deepforest (9105) 2005-11-21 16:56

Hi Rachel,
This is very mysterious and amazing species of animal. I like your picture. Frame and colours are good. Great capture, well done.
Regards,
Andrzej

SophieL (6030) 2005-11-21 17:01

Technically the picture is not perfect (centered composition, and I feel the animal is slightly off-focus), but this is such a weird looking animal, so uncommon to me, that I noticed this picture in the gallery and it interests me very much. I like your note too. Are they common in Tasmania?

maloutim (4239) 2006-09-29 14:52

So interesting, these animals completely unknown to us Europeans