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40ml.

I've ordered some Biolact for Spook. It's a better quality I Can't Believe It's Not Echidna Milk formulated specially for puggles, and much better than the Divetalact mix I've been making. It's a bit expensive at $25/kg, but 1kg will last Spook a couple of months. It'll keep him healthy and possibly happier, but it's hard to tell with echidnas. If they purred or barked to express their feelings you'd know how they're feeling, but the only thing I get from Spook is a sticky tongue, a sigh and poo.

I bet echidnas do bark, or even trumpet like elephants, but they only do that when they know no one is watching. I wonder if the stories of bunyips and yowies came about because people heard the distant trumpeting of a herd of echidnas and didn't know what it was.

"What's that noise?"
"Just some echidnas, trumpeting away."
"Are they playing 'Oh When The Saints Come Marching In'? They're very good"
"Wait until the Wombat barbershop quartet join in."
"Ah! The sounds of the Bush!"
"The kangaroos always spoil it by playing Keith Urban."

Comments

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

LOL! not to mention the kyliewannabee goannas.... :-P

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

They're such bogans.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Here all we get are jackalopes and hoopsnakes!
Some cultures get all the luck!:D
I can just see a group of echidnas waddling along in line, whistling that tune from The Bridge Over The River Kwai.............

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

But if echidnas trumpet in the bush, and nobody hears them, did they make a sound?

[sanderling.livejournal.com]

When I was young one of the books (and there were many, though I've forgotten the majority of them) she read me was The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek. I loved the book, though I always felt sorry for the bunyip.

[kayshapero]

Don't forget the koalas singing backup! Well, roaring anyway - I heard one once over at the zoo and if I hadn't been looking directly at him/her (I don't know how you tell with koalas) I would never have believed that little animal was making that incredible racket.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Him. Only the males make that noise.

You should hear a bunch of them announcing their territories at the same time.

[kayshapero]

Figures.

Anything like the row males of my own species make at ball games? :)

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

Hee! Kind of like how I have to worry if Mr. Bitch is doing OK or not. All I get is a bit of butt sticking out of his nest, or him hissing and popping when I pet him. (hissing is like a dog growling)