Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever

Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever | Grist

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Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever

Echidnas are spiny mammals that live in Australia and are like the weird cousins of duck-billed platypuses. Like a momma platypus, a momma echidna lays eggs, which she then hatches in a marsupial-like pouch. And the babies are called puggles! And they’re super weirdly cute! You can see this for yourself, because a rescued puggle, which likely fell out of its mother’s pouch, is currently living at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital near Sydney . You will basically die of cuteness watching this video: We will pass lightly over the fact that normally, rather than eating out of a human’s hand, the baby echidna would drink milk that its mom excreted from glands on her back. Because that is weird, but it is not cute. Forget about that and just look at its peculiar little snout! Its little fat belly! And, aaah, its little old man face!

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@luhugerth » 08 Nov '12, 7am
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@DisguisedQueen » 04 Nov '12, 10pm
This might be the cutest & weirdest animal ever: [link] For the particular attention of @meta_kresh & @Gothi_N
@jensnikolaus » 31 Oct '12, 10am
RT @wundalous: fox : kit, swan : cygnet, echidna : puggle. [link]
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@rarecollectionC » 30 Oct '12, 1pm
#nature Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]
@j_zimms » 29 Oct '12, 7pm
At times like this, perhaps you would like to look at a baby echidna [link] or baby gazelle [link]
@AlmostTruth » 29 Oct '12, 3pm
Who could resist that little puggle? RT @grist: Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]
@WholeLottaJulie » 29 Oct '12, 12pm
Itty bitty echidna! [link]
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@goodgord » 29 Oct '12, 9am
And @Alison_Taylor tells me that they can also live to be 50 years old, too! [link]
@carolemorrissey » 29 Oct '12, 6am
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@sound_language » 29 Oct '12, 6am
just because: [link]
@billygollner » 29 Oct '12, 5am
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@lindabear78 » 29 Oct '12, 5am
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@ohlalaholly » 29 Oct '12, 4am
Lil baby puggle so cute and weird! [link]
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I WANNA PUGGLE! RT @grist: Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]"
@zuk_alex » 29 Oct '12, 3am
RT @LaTrioli: No-one does weird quite like us: RT @grist: Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]
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To balance nastily scary, have some impossibly cute: RT @grist Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]
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@LaTrioli » 29 Oct '12, 3am
No-one does weird quite like us: RT @grist: Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]
@hanadykader » 26 Oct '12, 4pm
Do you think puggle is cute? Sort of like a cartoon character with his funny little snout and belly @BrennaEhrlich [link]
@TUNZAmag » 26 Oct '12, 10am
Echidnas are spiny mammals that live in Australia and are like the weird cousins of duck-billed platypuses. We... [link]
@MishMashInk » 26 Oct '12, 8am
And I thought baby sloths were the cutest baby animals .I change my mind, baby echidnas are [link]
@PaulHRosenberg » 26 Oct '12, 7am
RT @Echidne: This picture is of a baby echidna, called a puggle. Nothing to do with me. From here [link] [link]
@Echidne » 26 Oct '12, 6am
This picture is of a baby echidna, called a puggle. Nothing to do with me. From here [link] [link]
@ShelterMedicine » 26 Oct '12, 2am
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RT @BrianWong30: @AditiAPrabhu RT @grist: Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]
@grist » 26 Oct '12, 1am
D'aw? This baby echidna is both adorable and really weird-looking [link]
@honeyberk » 26 Oct '12, 1am
<3 RT @kilrwat More eco-porn: cutest. critter. ever. [link]
@kilrwat » 26 Oct '12, 1am
More eco-porn: cutest. critter. ever. [link]
@kevinjonheller » 26 Oct '12, 1am
Puggles -- baby Echidnas --are SO much cuter than Reaper drones. Watch and melt! [link]
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@JAMcollective » 25 Oct '12, 10pm
Zomg! RT @drgrist: Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]
@CarrieKamikaze » 25 Oct '12, 9pm
This creature, you must look at this creature! Future Mos Eisley cantina patron. [link] #echidna
@WildLegacy » 25 Oct '12, 8pm
Okay, we've got to do it. At the end of the day, our present to you. The adorably weird baby echidna, or "puggle": [link]
@accommodatingly » 25 Oct '12, 8pm
@BeaconPressBks You were right: I just died of cuteness watching this baby echidna (spiny anteater) [link]
@greenspot_lex » 25 Oct '12, 7pm
Too cute! Thanks @grist for passing this along: [link] A baby echidna.
@jbpaoletti » 25 Oct '12, 7pm
Your daily squee via @BeaconPressBks: The echidna: stranger than a platypus and their babies are called puggles. [link]
@BeaconPressBks » 25 Oct '12, 7pm
The echidna: stranger than a platypus and their babies are called puggles. [link]
@Christophicles » 25 Oct '12, 6pm
"But I want an echidna puggle NOW!" RT @drgrist: Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]
@local_kitchen » 25 Oct '12, 5pm
Because I love you: The Puggle. [link]
@Chernynkaya » 25 Oct '12, 5pm
Here's an animal I never heard of--so ugly it's cute! An Echidna Puggle: [link]
@AndOneForBlog » 25 Oct '12, 5pm
@CapsDuck19 I couldn't NOT share this, but not sure if it's exactly your thing: [link]
@52PercentFilm » 25 Oct '12, 5pm
Sooooo cute! RT @drgrist: Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever [link]