>
>
>>http://australian-animals.net/echidna.htm
>>It gives a brief discussion on how echidnas feed - the milk is rich and they
>>thus only need to be feed every three days and that the mother normally
>>secretes milk onto a patch of skin on their stomachs.
>>
> The young blind hairless Echidna attaches itself to a milk patch on
> its mothers skin inside the pouch and suckles for the next 8 to 12 weeks
> Once spines develop on the young Echidna is "evicted"
> from the pouch but stays in the burrow. The female Echidna comes back
> and regularly lets the young Echidna suckle. This occurs for the next
> 6 months

Been there, done that! LOL
Jo-Anne

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