The Targona Zoo in Australia is celebrating the birthdays of two very special additions!
These two echidnas were born back in August under their conservation program. It’s super rare for these births, and there were only two other echidna’s born in the same program… Over 30 years ago!
Today, @tarongazoo announced the birth of two short-beaked echidna puggles which hatched in August – a rare captive breeding success for the species, with only two others born at the zoo in more than 30 years.
Read more: https://t.co/THMdPJ0WPX pic.twitter.com/5bwYgnFixn— AustralianGeographic (@ausgeo) December 3, 2018
These new babies, called puggles, are a bizarre mix of weird and adorable. It’s hard to look away!
Echidnas are the only other egg-laying mammals in Australia in addition to the platypus.
They are mammals, but they lay eggs. A baby echidna is called a puggle. Sounds cute, but looks like a tiny alien. https://t.co/Gq4VDuPgX8 #Roswell #Iwanttobelieve pic.twitter.com/IW8F3fzEfk
— ANU Crawford School (@ANUCrawford) November 28, 2018