Crackle and pop
BBC Wildlife|Spring 2023
Short-beaked echidnas avoid over-heating by blowing - and bursting - bubbles on their nose
Stuart Blackman
Crackle and pop

ONE OF THE QUIRKIEST OF ALL MAMMALS, the egg-laying echidna of Australia, has been found to employ an appropriately eccentric method of cooling off in the heat, according to research published in Biology Letters.

This story is from the Spring 2023 edition of BBC Wildlife.

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