Echidnas In The Bush

[den]

Echidnas In The Bush
Originally uploaded by battyden.

Photos of Fips and his first taste of real termites.


All photos by Robin Taylor

Echidnas In The Bush


Termite Rampage




Fips using his long hind claw to scratch between the spines.

Comments

[jamesb]

feychildthe wants to know if echidna tongues are sticky.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Their spit is very sticky and the tongues feel slimy.

[ceosanna.livejournal.com]

Aww, the little baby's almost all growed up!

[chaosrah.livejournal.com]

ah! that is so cool! are the white things his spines? is the rest of him just furry? is it coarse or soft?

also, was wondering, what's the backstory on this guy? i don't think I added you until after you had him for a bit.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Wow, Fips really has filled out nicely and turned into a right fine upstanding young echinda

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

A good days rampage!

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Not that I know from echidnas, but he looks pretty healthy to me.

[deyo.livejournal.com]

Like Gorillas in the Mist.

Only pointier.

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

Wow, Fips is a naked scrotum no more! :D

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The white tips are the colours of the spines. The spines are modified hairs, and below them is a thick later of soft black fur.

I got him before he'd developed spines. He was dug out of his burrow by an excavator at a new housing development.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

and without Sigourney Weaver.

[chaosrah.livejournal.com]

Yes, I knew spines were modified hairs. Was just wondering if the white ones were indeed them. They dug him out as a baby? I wonder if he had siblings, and what happened to the parents. Echidnas lay eggs, right?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

he ate too many and got an upset stomach that night. Stinky, runny poos all over the place. The termites have more fat in them than ICBINT.

[deyo.livejournal.com]

Just shave your head. We'll never know the difference.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Aww....:(!
I guess every creature has to learn its own limits.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[gatorofages.livejournal.com]

Very cool photos :-)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

They're monotremes like Platypuses, but they only ever have one at a time., So, no siblings and the mother would have abandoned the nest immediately.

last picture

[(Anonymous)]

in the last picture it looks like he is flipping you off, why Fipps, where did you learn that?

Re: last picture

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Some naughty adult must have taught him. Fips is far too young to know about that sort of thing.