> > >>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 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html