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Tachyglossidae

1 species · Animals

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Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792)

Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792)

Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792)

The short - beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is a monotreme with a low body temperature, adapted for digging, eating ants and termites, hibernating in winter, and having a unique reproductive process including laying eggs in a pouch and a complex sex - chromosome system.

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