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Tango0122 Jun 2015 10:20 p.m. PST

"Knuckles from the Sonic the Hedgehog games is supposed to be an echidna, one that flies around like Superman and runs so fast its legs become blurs. "Knuckles is a cool guy with a bad attitude," claims Urban Dictionary in increasingly stilted English. "He does'nt [sic] like to be pushed around. Him and Sonic fight a lot, but I think their [sic] good buddies."

Other than the being friends with hedgehogs bit, it's not an inaccurate description of actual echidnas, the great misfits of the mammal family. There's four species, including one in Australia called the short-beaked echidna. But it's New Guinea's three species of the little-studied long-beaked variety, which I'll be focusing on here, that really amp up the weirdness—as you might have noticed…"

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From here
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Armand

Personal logo ochoin Supporting Member of TMP23 Jun 2015 4:13 a.m. PST

I occasionally see echidnas around my home. They're shy, innocuous little beasts.

And the taxidermy photo above is weird.

Tango0123 Jun 2015 11:21 a.m. PST

Agree!

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