TY  - BOOK
AB  - The echidna is a living fossil whose relatives were walking the earth  over 100 million years ago. It is one of the world's most extraordinary creatures and like the platypus, is a mammal that lays eggs, and also has fur and produces milk like all mammals. This book covers their evolution, anatomy, senses, reproduction, behaviour, feeding habits and metabolism, it show how echidnas are masters of their environment and not simply some sort of mammal 'test model' that went wrong.
AU  - Augee, M. L.
AU  - Gooden, Brett.
AU  - Musser, Anne.
CN  - QL737.M73
CN  - QL737.M73
CY  - Collingwood, Victoria :
DA  - c2006.
ID  - 309366
KW  - Tachyglossidae.
KW  - Mammals
KW  - Mammals
KW  - Mammals
KW  - Mammals
KW  - Long-beaked echidna
KW  - Short-beaked echidna
KW  - Monotremes
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0608/2006386975.html
N2  - The echidna is a living fossil whose relatives were walking the earth  over 100 million years ago. It is one of the world's most extraordinary creatures and like the platypus, is a mammal that lays eggs, and also has fur and produces milk like all mammals. This book covers their evolution, anatomy, senses, reproduction, behaviour, feeding habits and metabolism, it show how echidnas are masters of their environment and not simply some sort of mammal 'test model' that went wrong.
PB  - CSIRO Publishing,
PP  - Collingwood, Victoria :
PY  - c2006.
SN  - 9780643092044 (pbk.)
SN  - 0643092048 (pbk.)
T1  - Echidna :extraordinary egg-laying mammal /
TI  - Echidna :extraordinary egg-laying mammal /
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0608/2006386975.html
ER  -