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University policy dictated she needed someone with her whenever working with venomous animals ... to the mammals Australia-wide. Because even here on foxless Kangaroo Island, echidna numbers ...

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The photos and video were taken at night, so it might be easy to mistake the animal's spines for fur in the photo. "Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an ...

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The pair were driving through the 'bushfire blackened landscape' when they suddenly saw something appear on the road ahead.