Echidna facts: sort of like hedgehogs but not really | Animal Fact Files

[@cryguy5426]

Echidnas are sort of like hedgehogs but not really. Because unlike hedgehogs, echidnas don’t chuckle

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cus they rather flex their muscles

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Wikipedia about Echidna: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHSocqhtf6dgqM0

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@@limey461 ur clearly not a sonic fan

[@alceratops6853]

Echidnas can sense electricity?!?! That explains why you can find the master emerald pieces with relative ease

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Platypus: “Oh Echidna? That’s me second cousin, once removed for his mother’s sake.”

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Does he look like he needs YOUR power?

[@sandrad81]

i think it dosent look like he needs YOUR power

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

Knock Knock it's Knuckles.

[@10tadu68]

İmagine going into a forest and you see a echidna at the top of a giant green emerald and starts to shine

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Knuckles the echidna is Sonic the hedgehog’s rival.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Knuckles was also my favorite character.

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@@AnimalFactFiles Do Knuckles, Tikal, etc. have stomachs?

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@@AnimalFactFiles Guarding the Master Emeralds

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eggman in question:

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Cannot run and jump as good, but can climb walls

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Pov: if Sonic and Knuckles were cute:

[@phantom-X2086]

Do echidnas also live on islands floating in the sky?

[@Fuszionthegamingfox]

Uhhhh bro this isn't real cuz the floating island in sky was just u know like people's idea so isn't real. they only lived in the lands.

[@paulgirtu2463]

Supposedly echidnas were given that name because, like the greek monster echidna(mother of the chimera, she was a human but instead of legs she had two snake tails. I mean, snakes have really short tails so I guess a more accurate term would be the lower bodies of two snakes instead of her legs), these animals have both traits associated with mammals, as well as with reptiles. Also I've heard that despite being more primitive than opossums, they are far more intelligent, being about as intelligent as some dogs.

[@AnimalFactFiles]

Oh that's really cool! I didn't come across that while reading about them but I'm not always able to find entomology.

[@Kenkrisel]

If I have one of those I will call it knuckles the echidna

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they did not seem to chuckle

[@alceratops6853]

They rather flex their muscles

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Did you know knuckles is a echidna

[@Fuszionthegamingfox]

At the start I don't know but when I search for it and now I know I mean a KZbin video.

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Sonic & Knuckles

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That's easy. Hedgehogs aren't red

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These videos are keeping me sane through quarantine!

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Glad you're enjoying them!

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This is Knuckles, and I'm back! I been away for a while But I'm back to kick some butt at Wild Canyon! I shall find all the lost pieces of the Master Emerald here I'm gonna get those fools They wanna play with my Emeralds? They playing with the wrong guy! [Verse 1] Echidonia, that's what I'm representing Never seen a mic-hog spit like a menace Wild Canyon fun, I gotta chase a bat, huh Yeah, Rouge, she's sexy and smooth A double cross spy thief that's out for my jewels, uh! I'm feelin' her in mysterious ways That's why I stay on point like, every single day I gotta protect this place, I do it for my race, uh! [Hook] Yeah, you know how it is Yo, yo Uh (uh) Throw your hands up Come on, come on, yeah [Verse 2] Ain't nobody gon' come here and eat my plate, no! Yo what happened, my Emerald's gone! Somebody gonna get theirs quick, my word is bond! Who could'a did this, that snitch named Rouge! When I catch her, I'm-a get her with these tools There you are, come here, little thief! Think you gon' fly and get away quick? Uh, uh! Give up the Emerald or die, I don't love you! [Hook] Yeah, you know how it is Yo, yo Uh (uh) Throw your hands up Come on, come on, yeah

[@Col28]

Cool dudes, these echidnas! Gotta agree with the adorableness of 1:35. Even the name is cute: puggles. Thanks for the video!

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Knuckles Puggle

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Weird looking but cute animals. Please make a video about Bilby.

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Love these videos!!! Also, thanks for listening to your community in the comments :)

[@AnimalFactFiles]

So glad you enjoy watching!! 💚💚💚

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I think I'll try to dig deeper into this and see if I can find out just what the evolutionary advantage is to the pouch vs the burrow!

[@AnimalFactFiles]

So glad this inspired more research

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Adorable

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Do You Know De Wae

[@eunaekim9216]

Is this animal named for Echidna, who in a Greek myth was the mother of, among others, the Nemean lion and the Hydra? Even if not, it definitely fits the description!

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There is a species named after Sir David Attenbourough? I had no idea!

[@AnimalFactFiles]

There's more than one! www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/david-attenborough-species He deserves it =)

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Where's Hidden Palace zone?

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These mammals are awesome!🤩 Great video and keep up the incredible work!😁

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So echidnas so good very cool😀👍

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Glad you enjoyed it! 💜

[@kavanaghmee2627]

how about make Knuckles's an EEl

[@alfiemcfarland2932]

Three long beaked species and one short beaked one? Why didn't they just call the long beaked ones Echidnas? So the male tries to nuzzle them? Where?

[@AnimalFactFiles]

The oddities of common names are confusing sometimes. 😅😅 The males try to nuzzle the females mostly on their sides, but basically anywhere they can get near her.

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co-directed by Knuckles, made by Knuckles, is Knuckles

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But the question we're all asking is Do they know de Wae?

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you really had to call it a 'train' ?

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[@michaelp.4890]

No doubt a very interesting animal but I can't understand how it has a pouch. If echidnas use pouches to grow their babies, shouldn't they be classified with marsupials? Or is the pouch somehow not enough to consider it a marsupial? I'm curious.

[@paulgirtu2463]

Afaik marsupials don't lay eggs. I don't know if pouched monotremes put their eggs in the pouch after laying it or if the egg just falls into the pouch automatically, but either way they lay an egg, as opposed to marsupials who, despite also having pouches(for the most part), don't lay eggs. Oh wait, sorry. You mean that if the marsupium is the pouch and "marsupial" was named after it, then why do echidnas(who also have marsupiums) not count as marsupials? As in, why wasn't "marsuipal" chosen to include both echidnas and kangaroos(for instance)? Well, I don't really know either. For one, this could be convergent evolution. As in, the echidnas got their own pouch independently from the marsupials. But if this is not the case, then, maybe people back in the day didn't know that echidnas had pouches so they just named kangaroos, koalas, possums, etc. marsupials, only found out that echidnas have marsupiums later on, and kept the term "marsupial" for historical reasons. A third option would be that afaik placental mammals split from marsupials, and didn't evolve giving birth independently. If that's the case, we share a closer lca(last common ancestor) with the marsupials than with echidnas, and calling echidnas marsupials could mean that just about any clade could be called "marsupial", including us. But this doesn't stand up too much because one could just say "it's not a monophyletic group".

[@michaelp.4890]

@@paulgirtu2463 Thank you for the response. I think your first two points, if true, are not enough to not classify echidnas as marsupials in the modern age, during which scientists are all about cladistics and classification. I mean it isn't something that they would leave like this. The third point, the origin of marsupials and placental mammals, is something unknown to me. I do however understand your reasoning.

[@rainpooper7088]

Because that’s just not how classifications work. It’d be like saying “If some marsupials do have placentas, why aren’t they classified as placentals?” Because they’re not placentals, they’re marsupials and everything else about their physiology points to that. Just having something that could be seen as a placenta is not how being a placental mammal is defined, and having something that functions like a pouch doesn’t automatically make an animal a marsupial if there are other aspects that point towards them being their own thing, such as laying eggs and lacking external ear cartilage. Not to mention there are marsupials that don’t have pouches too, so defining them by pouch only is shaky at best. Echidna pouches are also notably different from marsupial pouches (they don’t have nipples for example) just like how a marsupial placenta is different from an actual placental placenta, even if they serve a similar purpose.

[@michaelp.4890]

@@rainpooper7088 Part of my confusion has to do with the little information provided about this pouch in echidnas. If this pouch has the exact same anatomy as the one that marsupials have, then my question is somehow valid. If not, it's understandable, as there's no reason to change the classification of a species just based on one trait. It is a fact that echidnas lay eggs after all, marsupials don't. In the end, these categories are our invention, constructs that are useful for understanding and differentiating between species.

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