We acknowledge the Kaartdijin Noongar people traditional owners of Country in of Southwest WA and their elder both past and present. In Nyungar the Echidna is called Nyingarn.

Echidnas are one of the two only monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, in the world. An Echidna lays her eggs into her pouch and when the egg hatches the baby is about the size of a jellybean. A baby echidna is called a puggle.  

The Echidna are covered in long spines and when they are threated they roll their heads and legs under them or burrow down into the ground or between rocks with their spines sticking up so predators can’t get to them.