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Australian Wildlife: Echidna
Title:
Australian Wildlife: Echidna
NFSA ID
15450
Year
1980
This episode from the series Australian Wildlife focusses on the echidna. The echidna is a monotreme, like the platypus. Monotremes are the only mammals whose young are hatched from eggs. The film shows the habits, feeding, burrowing and growth of this mammal.
Director
John Shaw
Producer
John Shaw
Production Company
Film Australia
Cinematographer
John Shaw
Narrator
Anne Haddy
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.