Do you know this animal? ‘These animals are medium-sized, solitary mammals covered 1, coarse hair and spines. Superfically, they resemble the anteaters of South ‘America and other spiny mammals. 2) ‘as hedgehogs and porcupines. They are usually black or brown 3 colour. 4 have been several reports of albinos, their eyes pink and their spines white. They have elongated and slender snouts that function as 3) ‘a mouth and a nose. Like the platypus, they are equipped with electrosensors, but 6) the platypus has 40,000 electroreceptors on its bill, the long-beaked one has only 2,000 electroreceptors, and the short-beaked fone, which lives in a drier environment, has 7). more than 400 located at the tip of its snout. They have very short, strong limbs with large claws, and are powerful diggers. Their claws on their hind limbs are elongated and curved backwards to help aid in digging. They have tiny mouths and toothless jaws. The echidna feeds by tearing open soft logs, anthills and the like, and using its long, sticky tongue, 8), protrudes from its snout, to collect prey