Fig. 2: Photographs of Attenborough’s echidna and their signs. | npj Biodiversity

Fig. 2: Photographs of Attenborough’s echidna and their signs.

From: Attenborough’s echidna rediscovered by combining Indigenous knowledge with camera-trapping

Fig. 2

a Echidna “nose-pokes”, photographed in the Cyclops in 2023; b the holotype specimen of Zaglossus attenboroughi, held at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; c one of the first ever images of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna; d image showing the five forefoot claws that distinguish Z. attenboroughi from Z. bruijnii; e Z. attenboroughi foraging, which produces nose-pokes as in (a); f Z. attenboroughi shows typical echidna courtship behaviour, in which the presumed male follows the female (see also Supplementary Movie 3).

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