Difference between echidna and porckupine

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noun

1. a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
2. a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia

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Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.

True, the bottle of T.C.P. antiseptic (slightly to the right) is a reminder of splinters, stubbed toes, barnacle cuts from the jetty, and minor sailing accidents but fortunately nobody seems ever to have been seriously injured; never to my knowledge bitten by a snake or poisonous spider, and the only local indigenous wildlife I recall are possums, kookaburras, and a lone echidna which put in an appearance in about 1976.

There are only three living monotremes, the duck-billed platypus and two species of echidna, or ‘spiny anteaters’, such as the one shown at right.

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