Robert Irwin love story (Discontinued)

Chapter 4: Echidnas 🐾

After finishing up the show and putting Dexter back for a bit before the pictures. I slowly walked up to my brothers who were all talking with one another and chatted with them for a short little talk about the chores and things they to do before heading off to the Echidna enclosure and doing the work over there. "Remember to do your chores that mum gave us."
"What chores?" They all asked in complete confusion.
"Really? Wow! Zach make sure you wash the dishes tonight its your day, today. Jack make sure you hang up the washing, and take off the dry clothes and Corbyn next time check and close the back door, we don't want anything stolen from our place, again. And you have to feed all the animals, change their water and give them their food and medicine." I commanded at them and reminded them. My chores was to remind the boys and to clean the animal cages and care for the foster animals before release them back into the wild or continue to care for them and give them to local zoos or our one. I went up to the enclosure and cleaned the sign which was covered with bird poop, which read; Tachyglossus aculeatus.
The Echidna has a very slender snout and long, flicking tongue, which is ideal for catching insects. The Echidna also has a distinctive sharp yellow and brown spines (quills) along the back and sides for protection against predators. When threatened, the Echidna will curl inwards, leaving only their sharp spines exposed.
Habitat: Found throughout Australia, the Echidna is a highly adaptable creature and can be found in coastal forests, alpine meadows and interior deserts. The Echidna has the widest distribution of any native Australian mammal.
Diet: Fun fact! Echidnas have no teeth! Wow, right? They live on a very specific diet of termites, ants and other soil invertebrates, especially beetle larvae. They have very strong claws in which to break open rotting logs to collect termites.
Breeding: The Echidna's breeding season occurs between July and August. After mating the male and female go their separate ways. Four weeks later the female lays a single egg into a simple pouch on her abdomen. Ten days later the baby Echidna hatches and starts to lap up milk from its mother. Baby Echidnas start life without hair or quills but will eventually grow these. When the young is too prickly to carry, the mother will dig a burrow for the young. The young is weaned at about 7 months of age.