Short-beaked Echidna - Unisex Barnard Tank Size:L Salties are surprisingly good swimmers

Salties are surprisingly good swimmers and can travel vast distances in the ocean

this butterfly has iridescent blue wings that shimmer in the sunlight

using its bill to probe for crabs

They only have one pup a year

with a scaly green body that mimics the dappled light filtering through the trees

Short-beaked Echidna - Unisex Barnard Tank Size:L Salties are surprisingly good swimmersThe short beaked echidna is one of Australias most wonderfully weird mammals covered in sharp spines, equipped with a long sticky tongue, and capable of laying eggs despite being a mammal. Found right across the country, from bushland to alpine regions, it uses its powerful claws to tear into ant and termite nests, slurping up thousands of insects in a single meal. When threatened, it simply digs straight down or curls into a spiky ball, making