The Wandering Tattler

We also saw short-beaked echidnas, which are monotremes (egg-laying mammals). At one point this echidna came so close to me that I couldn't photograph it, given the long focal length of my telephoto lens. We may have observed the activity of another monotreme, the platypus, at Platypus Springs near the Cape de Coudic Visitor Center of Chase-Flinders National Park, but the animals never rose above the surface of the murky water.