Spiky Echidna

Author: Rebecca Johnson
Homepage 9781740215794

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  • : $5.95 AUD
  • : 9781740215794
  • : Pascal Press
  • : Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd
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  • : 0.07
  • : March 2005
  • : 148mm X 212mm X 2mm
  • : Australia
  • : 4.95
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  • : Rebecca Johnson
  • : Steve Parish Story Books Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 2005
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  • : en
  • : 823.4
  • : From 3 To 99
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  • : 24
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Barcode 9781740215794
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Description

In Spiky Echidna, a baby echidna gets a piece of wire caught in between his spines. It takes a friendly possum to pull it out for him. The short-beaked echidna is a mammal called a monotreme (meaning "one hole" -- it has one vent through which everything, including eggs and waste matter, passes). Its young hatches from a leathery-shelled egg then stays in the small, backward-facing pouch until its spines develop. If it is threatened, an echidna will roll up into a spiky ball on hard ground or dig quickly into soft ground.