Echidna facts: sort of like hedgehogs but not really

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Echidnas are egg laying mammals. Along with the platypus, the four living echidna species are classified in the monotreme order. Monotremes are mammals and thus produce milk for their young and create their own heat (along with other mammalian traits) but this unique mammals have a cloaca and lay eggs. Echidnas only lay a single egg during the breeding season, though they may have plenty of partners! Echidnas live in a wide variety of habitats from sea level to mountainous regions. They can live just about anywhere they can find food! These little animals come equipped with spines for defense which protects them from predators like dingoes, though they are still hunted by humans and are threatened by habitat loss as well as collisions with cars and other treats. Echidnas are able to enter low activity states - like hibernation - for upwards of two months at a time, though usually these states are shorter with periods of activity in between.
Scientific Name: Family - Tachyglossidae
Range: Australia and New Guinea
Size: 15-37lb (7-17kg)
Diet: ants, termites, earthworms, beetle larvae, etc.
Lifespan: 40+ years
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@alceratops6853 2 жыл бұрын

Echidnas can sense electricity?!?! That explains why you can find the master emerald pieces with relative ease

@cryguy5426 3 жыл бұрын

Echidnas are sort of like hedgehogs but not really. Because unlike hedgehogs, echidnas don’t chuckle

@GiantFarder 3 жыл бұрын

cus they rather flex their muscles

@limey461 3 жыл бұрын

bro you got the whole squad laughing

@brienfoaboutanything9037 2 жыл бұрын

Wikipedia about Echidna: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jKl1dNhor6iRop8.html

@yozy-. 2 жыл бұрын

@@limey461 ur clearly not a sonic fan

@GOJIRA_2000 2 жыл бұрын

Does he look like he needs YOUR power?

@sandrad81 Жыл бұрын

i think it dosent look like he needs YOUR power

@bardthenascarfanaticdragon 3 жыл бұрын

Knock Knock it's Knuckles.

@VaciliNikoMavich 11 ай бұрын

Platypus: “Oh Echidna? That’s me second cousin, once removed for his mother’s sake.”

@SlapstickGenius23 3 жыл бұрын

Knuckles the echidna is Sonic the hedgehog’s rival.

@AnimalFactFiles 3 жыл бұрын

Knuckles was also my favorite character.

@Angie2343 3 жыл бұрын

@@AnimalFactFiles Do Knuckles, Tikal, etc. have stomachs?

@DigimonHenryWong Жыл бұрын

@@AnimalFactFiles Guarding the Master Emeralds

@theestilesterile Жыл бұрын

eggman in question:

@youngfox2186 3 жыл бұрын

Cannot run and jump as good, but can climb walls

@paulgirtu2463 3 жыл бұрын

Supposedly echidnas were given that name because, like the greek monster echidna(mother of the chimera, she was a human but instead of legs she had two snake tails. I mean, snakes have really short tails so I guess a more accurate term would be the lower bodies of two snakes instead of her legs), these animals have both traits associated with mammals, as well as with reptiles. Also I've heard that despite being more primitive than opossums, they are far more intelligent, being about as intelligent as some dogs.

@AnimalFactFiles 3 жыл бұрын

Oh that's really cool! I didn't come across that while reading about them but I'm not always able to find entomology.

@Kenkrisel 2 жыл бұрын

If I have one of those I will call it knuckles the echidna

@phantom-X2086 Жыл бұрын

Do echidnas also live on islands floating in the sky?

@Fuszionthegamingfox 5 ай бұрын

Uhhhh bro this isn't real cuz the floating island in sky was just u know like people's idea so isn't real. they only lived in the lands.

@10tadu68 Жыл бұрын

İmagine going into a forest and you see a echidna at the top of a giant green emerald and starts to shine

@emptyazurite5972 2 жыл бұрын

they did not seem to chuckle

@alceratops6853 2 жыл бұрын

They rather flex their muscles

@paladinofhonor6634 3 жыл бұрын

Love these videos!!! Also, thanks for listening to your community in the comments :)

@AnimalFactFiles 3 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoy watching!! 💚💚💚

@rayan2620 3 жыл бұрын

Did you know knuckles is a echidna

@Fuszionthegamingfox 5 ай бұрын

At the start I don't know but when I search for it and now I know I mean a KZfaq video.

@saradapagediocletian9707 3 жыл бұрын

These videos are keeping me sane through quarantine!

@AnimalFactFiles 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying them!

@Col28 3 жыл бұрын

Cool dudes, these echidnas! Gotta agree with the adorableness of 1:35. Even the name is cute: puggles. Thanks for the video!

@alceratops6853 2 жыл бұрын

Knuckles Puggle

@akerumiyamoto 2 жыл бұрын

This is Knuckles, and I'm back! I been away for a while But I'm back to kick some butt at Wild Canyon! I shall find all the lost pieces of the Master Emerald here I'm gonna get those fools They wanna play with my Emeralds? They playing with the wrong guy! [Verse 1] Echidonia, that's what I'm representing Never seen a mic-hog spit like a menace Wild Canyon fun, I gotta chase a bat, huh Yeah, Rouge, she's sexy and smooth A double cross spy thief that's out for my jewels, uh! I'm feelin' her in mysterious ways That's why I stay on point like, every single day I gotta protect this place, I do it for my race, uh! [Hook] Yeah, you know how it is Yo, yo Uh (uh) Throw your hands up Come on, come on, yeah [Verse 2] Ain't nobody gon' come here and eat my plate, no! Yo what happened, my Emerald's gone! Somebody gonna get theirs quick, my word is bond! Who could'a did this, that snitch named Rouge! When I catch her, I'm-a get her with these tools There you are, come here, little thief! Think you gon' fly and get away quick? Uh, uh! Give up the Emerald or die, I don't love you! [Hook] Yeah, you know how it is Yo, yo Uh (uh) Throw your hands up Come on, come on, yeah

@FACELESS_VOID_00 3 жыл бұрын

Weird looking but cute animals. Please make a video about Bilby.

@runesofrude 2 жыл бұрын

That's easy. Hedgehogs aren't red

@eunaekim9216 3 жыл бұрын

I think I'll try to dig deeper into this and see if I can find out just what the evolutionary advantage is to the pouch vs the burrow!

@AnimalFactFiles 3 жыл бұрын

So glad this inspired more research

@keatonblackman472 3 жыл бұрын

Can You Do Tasmanian Devil Please

@sowhat5115 Жыл бұрын

Adorable

@jadenl629 Жыл бұрын

These mammals are awesome!🤩 Great video and keep up the incredible work!😁

@Frog1kMcFrogg-yq2iw 5 ай бұрын

Pov: if Sonic and Knuckles were cute:

@eunaekim9216 2 жыл бұрын

Is this animal named for Echidna, who in a Greek myth was the mother of, among others, the Nemean lion and the Hydra? Even if not, it definitely fits the description!

@brahimilotfi9689 Жыл бұрын

Sonic & Knuckles

@edyscheuleac5722 3 жыл бұрын

There is a species named after Sir David Attenbourough? I had no idea!

@AnimalFactFiles 3 жыл бұрын

There's more than one! www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/david-attenborough-species He deserves it =)

@icarolobo1116 3 жыл бұрын

So echidnas so good very cool😀👍

@AnimalFactFiles 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! 💜

@SamMessenger2002 Жыл бұрын

Do You Know De Wae

@ThaiBeo1701 Жыл бұрын

Where's Hidden Palace zone?

@alfiemcfarland2932 3 жыл бұрын

Three long beaked species and one short beaked one? Why didn't they just call the long beaked ones Echidnas? So the male tries to nuzzle them? Where?

@AnimalFactFiles 3 жыл бұрын

The oddities of common names are confusing sometimes. 😅😅 The males try to nuzzle the females mostly on their sides, but basically anywhere they can get near her.

@michaelp.4890 3 жыл бұрын

No doubt a very interesting animal but I can't understand how it has a pouch. If echidnas use pouches to grow their babies, shouldn't they be classified with marsupials? Or is the pouch somehow not enough to consider it a marsupial? I'm curious.

@paulgirtu2463 3 жыл бұрын

Afaik marsupials don't lay eggs. I don't know if pouched monotremes put their eggs in the pouch after laying it or if the egg just falls into the pouch automatically, but either way they lay an egg, as opposed to marsupials who, despite also having pouches(for the most part), don't lay eggs. Oh wait, sorry. You mean that if the marsupium is the pouch and "marsupial" was named after it, then why do echidnas(who also have marsupiums) not count as marsupials? As in, why wasn't "marsuipal" chosen to include both echidnas and kangaroos(for instance)? Well, I don't really know either. For one, this could be convergent evolution. As in, the echidnas got their own pouch independently from the marsupials. But if this is not the case, then, maybe people back in the day didn't know that echidnas had pouches so they just named kangaroos, koalas, possums, etc. marsupials, only found out that echidnas have marsupiums later on, and kept the term "marsupial" for historical reasons. A third option would be that afaik placental mammals split from marsupials, and didn't evolve giving birth independently. If that's the case, we share a closer lca(last common ancestor) with the marsupials than with echidnas, and calling echidnas marsupials could mean that just about any clade could be called "marsupial", including us. But this doesn't stand up too much because one could just say "it's not a monophyletic group".

@michaelp.4890 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulgirtu2463 Thank you for the response. I think your first two points, if true, are not enough to not classify echidnas as marsupials in the modern age, during which scientists are all about cladistics and classification. I mean it isn't something that they would leave like this. The third point, the origin of marsupials and placental mammals, is something unknown to me. I do however understand your reasoning.

@rainpooper7088 2 жыл бұрын

Because that’s just not how classifications work. It’d be like saying “If some marsupials do have placentas, why aren’t they classified as placentals?” Because they’re not placentals, they’re marsupials and everything else about their physiology points to that. Just having something that could be seen as a placenta is not how being a placental mammal is defined, and having something that functions like a pouch doesn’t automatically make an animal a marsupial if there are other aspects that point towards them being their own thing, such as laying eggs and lacking external ear cartilage. Not to mention there are marsupials that don’t have pouches too, so defining them by pouch only is shaky at best. Echidna pouches are also notably different from marsupial pouches (they don’t have nipples for example) just like how a marsupial placenta is different from an actual placental placenta, even if they serve a similar purpose.

@michaelp.4890 2 жыл бұрын

@@rainpooper7088 Part of my confusion has to do with the little information provided about this pouch in echidnas. If this pouch has the exact same anatomy as the one that marsupials have, then my question is somehow valid. If not, it's understandable, as there's no reason to change the classification of a species just based on one trait. It is a fact that echidnas lay eggs after all, marsupials don't. In the end, these categories are our invention, constructs that are useful for understanding and differentiating between species.