Echidna digging a burrow

Just happened to spy this short beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) digging a hole as I rode past. This was taken a few meters beside the highway near Gympie (100 miles north of Brisbane). From the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime, it was told that the echidna was once a man upon whom many spears were thrown and these spears eventually became the quills upon its back. Echidnas are one of only two mammals that lay eggs, the other being the platypus.