Echidna's daily baths
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2021
- This short-beaked echidna turns up every day for his bath; snorkelling, soaking, snoozing and scratching in peaceful bliss. Echidnas are amazing monotremes - egg-laying mammals. The female echidna lays a single soft-shelled, leathery egg and deposits it directly into her pouch. Hatching occurs 10 days later and the baby echidna, (called a puggle) then sucks milk from the milk pores of the pouch (monotremes have no nipples) and remains in the pouch for up to 55 days. If you think they really can't get any stranger, well they can; male echidnas have a four-headed penis. During mating, it alternates heads in sets of two.
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I absolutely adore how the magpie did a double take when it noticed the camera
That was fun to watch. That little guy was enjoying his own personal spa. The magpie was just thinking, hmmm the water looks spikey today, I’ll come back later.
Hello Heather, thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. To indulge in a little anthropomorphism myself, I though the maggie was looking at me through the camera as if to say, 'er, ahem.. excuse me waiter, - I seem to have some echidna in my water?'
@@GubanaNatureRefuge hahaha! Yes.
So sweet! I love how his little back leg stretches over the side of the tub! THank you for providing this cool water for them all! ❤️
Hello Diane, thank you for watching and for taking time out of your day to share your thoughts. I hope you are having a marvellous week :)
He took a bath on his own. Some men don't even bath everyday
OMG this too cute. I love how he just stops in the weirdest positions to take naps!🤣🤣🤣
Who knew echidnas liked bathing like this?! So cool!
Someone has themselves a favourite water hole 💚
Hello Kim, he/she really has! The visits are as regular as clockwork - definitely a satisfied customer. Thank you again for your ongoing support.
Echidna: dang i get a free bath and sleep this is yoinks
magpie: wtf is this boyo in dirty water
Echidna: SHHHHH
The magpie's look says it all really
Put up a sign "for drinking only" lol
I love how the magpie is looking at the camera, It's adorable.
The Echidna just looks like it's enjoying the sheer bliss of this water: "Ahhhh... thank god some relief from this heat!"
I love Australia. Still many parts that feel like primeval/primordial world/earth as it was and has been for millenia without human transformation and "just being".
This is the most wonderful video....and thank you for teaching me so much about these extraordinary animals. Keep up the great work.
Hello Elizabeth, thank you for your kind support and encouragement - you are very much appreciated. I hope you are enjoying a marvellous week :)
So funny how the magpie looked at the camera like “heyyy, what’s going on here?! 🤨🤨”. Great video 😹
This must be how the echidnas get rid of their ticks? The drown them!
Ok, as an Australian, I see I have a spirit animal in an echidna. I too fall asleep in the bath with a too common frequency. I’m with you there, buddy!
Oh he or she is so cute. I just love them
the water must be good, so many return visits. 🕊❤🐨🍀🌾
Hello Olive, definitely a satisfied customer. Not so sure that the magpie is so keen on the flavour now though ;)
@@GubanaNatureRefuge ❤
"Waiter? Uh, waiter. There's some spikes in my water, mate. No I can't drink the water if it's got- oh crikey waiter look the spikes are moving! They're moving, mate. This is unacceptable!"
The echidna even sheds spines in the water. So rude!
The Echidna Day Spa
Love echidnas. Use to be one at my local park. So cute.
Geez I love echidnas. Thanks for the great videos!
I love this video! I was so excited to see lots of fresh echidna diggings along my favourite section of the Bibbulmun Track last Friday, between Sullivans Rock and Mount Cuthbert/Vincent towards Monadnocks Camp. So lovely to know they are around.
Seems the crows put a serious dent in tick populations.
Hello LKNANML, we like to think so, but it is hard to know what part this year's La Niña climate pattern played. Time will tell :)
Looks terribly refreshing
Definitely!
I absolutely love echidnas... I live in Western Australia and we have them where I live too... 😊
Hello Tas, they really are awesome aren't they? I like to think they will well out-survive the human species with their ancient, enigmatic ways :)
@@GubanaNatureRefuge - their survival is much more assured than our other monotreme (Australias other EGG LAYING MAMMAL that feeds its newly hatched baby, on MILK) the platypus... 😟 we do not have any platypus in Western Australia, sadly...
@@NannupTiger I've never seen a platypus in the wild
@@GubanaNatureRefuge aww, I would love to see one too, I wish people would take the platypus's conservation status more seriously, the platypus is literally one of the most bizarre, living fossils we (the world) has on our planet..
great to see this, weathers been great too. I live not far from leyburn
Hello Chonk, lovely to meet you :) I hope you enjoyed the long weekend.
likewise :D
That Magpie was like who do you think you're looking at
How cute is this?! Thanks for posting.
Hello Judy, thank you for watching, and for your kind words of encouragement. I hope you are enjoying a lovely week :)
Omg cuteness overload 🙏🏻🥰😍😘🐾❤️
What a beautiful creature. Thanks for sharing your unique view of this brilliant man made oasis.
Reminds me of Bathhouse in Spirited Away LOL
This video made my heart full. What a cool little dude. ❤️
That's my kind of asmr. I could watch that for hours. Thanks so much!
Hello NK, thank you for watching and for taking the time to share your kind comment. I hope you are enjoying a marvellous week.
He cleaned, pooped, and peed himself in that water for the kangaroos to come & drink. 🤣
neat footage
Hello PBF, thank you for your kind words of encouragement. I hope you are having a marvellous week. Stay safe.
I adore your videos ❤️🙏🏼 Newly subbed 4 ever.
Hello PJ, thank you for all of your support and encouragement. it is very much appreciated
I understood this echidna. How many times have any of us gotten into a bathtub or hot tub and started to doze! lol He thought it was his own, personal bathtub!
I know some animals will go into water when they are infested with fleas.
The fact that he was bathing in it, can other animals smell him in the water and not want to drink it?
Hello KG, the magpie definitely didn't look impressed with the new water flavour ;)
The echidna seems to do a lot of scratching in the water, and leaves behind some quills from time to time, so I think you might well be right about the parasites.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge Thank you for your reply ☺. Is the water you supply gravity fed? So it does "clean itself out" eventually?
@@k.george8722 It is gravity fed with a float valve, but we overflow it to help keep it fresh. It does get a complete clean out in winter, when there are no tadpoles.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge I assumed so, because it would get stale otherwise. Well, that's not only good for the echidna, to get fresh bath water 😉 but also every other animal that uses it lol
Nice, enjoying it's life, no need of more.
When the magpie looked at the camera a minute in 👌👌😁
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So cute and lovely 🇯🇵👏
You did a Beautiful job 🥰😍💕
Hello Kiyomi, thank you for watching and for taking the time to share your kind and encouraging words.
It's interesting that their spikes have hemispheres.
Hello Alan, I am intrigued what you mean - can you tell us more? I'm definitely missing something :)
@@GubanaNatureRefuge I meant that the echidna's thorns have 'symmetrical sections' of left and right instead of the one big mass of spikes covering the entire back as it first appears so. :)
@@MaxFuckinFightmasterOh, I see what you mean! It is also really interesting to watch how they can manipulate the direction of the spines in sections too, ensuring that predators are presented with the pointiest argument possible.
Nada melhor dor quê um banho refrescante pela manhã kkk
I want to pet it for some reason
Hello BG, I know right? They have such cute little faces and surprisingly soft, downy undercoats. You can definitely pat them as long as you stroke with the direction of the spikes, and not against the spikes - but the aloof and enigmatic echidna does not need or acknowledge our attention ;)
@@GubanaNatureRefuge (my hands filled with unnecessary spike holes) "oh", *starts petting it the right way*😊
Excuse me sir, but this water is for drinking, not bathing.
Are echidnas in the platypus family? Are their spikes hooked or straight? It looks like when God made Echidnas he used leftover parts. ;)
Hello Amanita, you are on the right track of thought there - echidnas and platypus are the only surviving examples of the mammalian subclass called monotremes, which is one of the three main groups of living mammals - the other 2 groups being placentals (Eutheria) and marsupials. The spikes are actually long, tough, hollow hair follicles, but they sure don't look or feel like it!
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They have an interesting variety of parasites on their skin, a kind of burrowing flea, mites, ticks etc
Will there be more tick removing vids?
Hello Wolf, if there are more seasons with heavy tick infestations, there will be more tick videos. When this will be depends on the seasons.
Are you a Cebuano ?
Because youre channel name " Guba na Nature " can be translated to Destroyed Nature.
Hello Niandra, Guba na is the name of the local wallabies who frequent the area. A few people have let us know that it also means destroyed. A name change for the nature refuge is motion, but Government departments move very slowly.
@@GubanaNatureRefuge So its not from the Philippines then, its amazing how languages have similarities
This is not Echidna i knew...
Sorry, I don't understand.
No tips i guest
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Do u kno da wae?
He's got a hot and heavy date tonight. You can never have enough baths... The magpie was quite curios about the camera... So happy I found this channel.
Do you have a "Payme" Paypal account??
Hello Chris, welcome, and thank you for taking the time to comment. We don't look for donations, because we feel very fortunate to have enough money to personally finance all of the conservation work that we have time enough to undertake, if that makes sense?
'o veo q sten bien cuidada dos.. Los canguros llenos de garratas