Valuing the long-beaked echidna

摘要

Zaglossus attenboroughi, a species of long-beaked echidna named after the British naturalist Sir David Attenbo-rough, lives in the Cyclops Mountains in the Indonesian province of Papua. It has many unusual attributes, both social and physical. It is a solitary creature: it meets its own kind only once a year, to mate. The male has a four-headed penis; the offspring (known as a puggle) hatches from an egg and lives in its mother's pouch until its growing spines make it an uncongenial companion.