Ten amazing facts about the short-beaked echidna, that you can WOW your friends with. 1. Echidnas are monotremes, a small group of mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.The female lays a single, soft-shelled egg and incubates it in a temporary pouch on her abdomen. 2. They have a unique milk secretion While they are mammals, they have no nipples! Instead, the mother secretes milk through special pores in her pouch for the baby to lap up. 3. A baby is called a "puggle" The b

Slurping noises filled the room as an orphaned baby echidna, also known as a puggle, had her first meal in six days at the Taronga Zoo Wildlife Hospital in Sydney | Reuters