echnidnas

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• - Photo and brief description. Includes the animal's name in three Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland: Oykangand, Olkola and Pakanh.
  
• - Description and photos of Tachyglossus aculeatus, courtesy of Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodge, Atherton Tableland, Far North Queensland.
  
• - Brief summary of facts about this endangered echidna from New Guinea.
  
• - Brief description, with drawings and photos, of these spine covered, insectivorous, monotreme mammals occurring in two genera: Zaglossus or Proechidna of New Guinea and Tachyglossus of Australia and southern New Guinea.
  
• - Annotated links to sites about the echidna of Australia and New Guinea.