Female echidnas have special glands in their pouch which secrete milk. The baby echidna, called a puggle, laps it up. A one month old puggle. It will stay in its mother's pouch for about two months, ...

Kangaroos have joeys and dingoes have pups, but what do you call a baby platypus? If you think "puggle", think again.

Like its relatives, it lays eggs, and the baby stays in a pouch after hatching. The eastern long-beaked echidna lives in the forests of New Guinea and is well suited to its surroundings.