These little critters, known as puggles when they are babies, are notoriously hard to breed, but the Perth Zoo in Australia has managed to successfully breed them three years in a row. The zoo thinks it’s now ready to start working on a reproduction program for their critically endangered cousins, the long-beaked echidna of New Guinea.
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helimx
yowza.. now that’s a face only a mother could love. lol
so ugly their cute.
flux
Theres something about mammals that are always going to be cute to me. These two little guys are like brown spikey potatoes… and yet… still cute.
If they were a type of fish, or insects I’d be repulsed by now, but being mammals they get the green light no matter what. I wonder if some part of our brain keeps a “no matter what” mamailian family bond. Hmmm. weird.
R00B0y
..their not so cute at 1:00 AM when two dogs decide to try to dig one out from under a fence… the dogs were OK and so was the Echidna.. and nowhere near this tiny.. this one was the size of a house cat and determined not to be chased off by two Siberian Huskies!
Needless to say it made for a sleepless night!
felixthecat
What’s endangering them? What else? People eating them and habitat destruction.
Jessssssssss
Aaaww. I like the way they waddle too.
@ felixthe cat: People eating them? I don’t think so.
Live in Australia
Nice to hear that. One of these days me and my family will go down there to take a look at those cute little critters ourselves. Hope that there will be more of them when we arrive. Good job.
Jessssssssss
They are very cute when you find them in the wild. Instead of trying to run away, they get scared and roll into a little ball, quivering with fear.
felixthecat
Oh yes indeed. A rare one in New Guinea was eaten (the second known example of the species), and the people there regularly feast upon them.
zavatone
Jill, you wrote this:
“These little critters, known as puggles when they babies.”
Please add the word “are” before babies.
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