Article ND68 Echidna puggles give hope to endangered cousins in Papua New Guinea – video

Echidna puggles give hope to endangered cousins in Papua New Guinea – video

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Guardian Staff
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Australian researchers at the University of Queensland are discovering the secrets to captive echidna breeding. The successful births of 14 short-beaked echidna puggles in the past five years have brought hope that the knowledge can be applied to their long-beaked cousins in Papua New Guinea, which are endangered because of habitat loss and hunting

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