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A baby echidna has been born in a university for the first time
/ Email Print Kootear, a female echidna, was anaesthetised at Macquarie University in Sydney earlier this week so her offspring could be removed from her pouch for weighing James Woodford A baby echidna – one of Australia’s egg-laying mo…
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Scientists at a Sydney university have successfully bred a baby echidna in captivity, marking the first such birth at a university. Echidnas are notoriously hard to breed outside the wild, so this achievement demonstrates that controlled breeding of the species is possible.
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