2. Like all mammals, echidnas feed milk to their young but they don't have nipples. Female echidnas have special glands in their pouch which secrete milk. The baby echidna, called a puggle, laps it up ...

The summer months bring special moments to those living in the Yarra Ranges as the short-beaked echidna goes about its […] ...

She has jokingly been called a "perve in the bush" but it is ... caring for injured echidnas and has hand-reared puggles, as baby echidnas are known, teaching them to take milk from the palm ...