Spiky Echidna
Author(s): Rebecca Johnson
In Spiky Echidna, a baby echidna gets a piece of wire caught in between his spines. It takes a friendly possum to pull it out for him. The short-beaked echidna is a mammal called a monotreme (meaning "one hole" -- it has one vent through which everything, including eggs and waste matter, passes). Its young hatches from a leathery-shelled egg then stays in the small, backward-facing pouch until its spines develop. If it is threatened, an echidna will roll up into a spiky ball on hard ground or dig quickly into soft ground.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Pascal Press
- : Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd
- : 0.07
- : 01 March 2005
- : 148mm X 212mm X 2mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rebecca Johnson
- : Paperback
- : 2005
- : en
- : From 3 To 99
- : 24
- : illustrations