{"id":513079,"date":"2024-06-12T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=513079"},"modified":"2024-06-12T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:51:15","slug":"egg-laying-mammal-rediscovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/egg-laying-mammal-rediscovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Egg-laying mammal rediscovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_513084\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-equidna-2023-12-site-1140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-513084 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-equidna-2023-12-site-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-equidna-2023-12-site-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-equidna-2023-12-site-1140-250x146.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-equidna-2023-12-site-1140-700x409.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-equidna-2023-12-site-1140-120x70.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">JJHarrison\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/a> The short-beaked echidna, which lives in Australia and New Guinea<span class=\"media-credits\">JJHarrison\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is a common question in trivia games: what mammal has spines and a beak, eats ants, and lays eggs? The answer is the echidna (<em>Zaglossus<\/em> sp.). On the final day of an expedition led by biologists from the University of Oxford, UK, cameras recorded one of these strange creatures, of the species <em>Z. attenboroughi<\/em> (Attenborough&#8217;s long-beaked echidna), in an unexplored area of forest in northern Indonesia. The four 3-second clips showed that the species is not extinct, as was feared. Previously, the only proof of its existence was a dead specimen collected 62 years ago and stored at Naturalis natural history museum in the Netherlands. The four extant species of echidnas and the platypus (<em>Ornithorhynchus anatinus<\/em>), found in Australia and New Guinea, are the only living mammals that lay eggs. Attenborough&#8217;s long-billed echidna and the western long-billed echidna (<em>Z. bruijni<\/em>) are considered critically endangered. Adults measure an average of 30 centimeters in length and have a long, sticky tongue that they use to catch ants and termites. Solitary and nocturnal, they curl up into a ball or quickly dig a hole when they sense danger (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-67363874?at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_medium=emails&amp;at_objective=awareness&amp;at_ptr_type=email&amp;at_ptr_name=salesforce&amp;at_campaign=newsbriefing&amp;at_email_send_date=20231110&amp;at_send_id=4002951&amp;at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.co.uk%2fnews%2fscience-environment-67363874&amp;at_bbc_team=crm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>BBC News<\/em><\/a>, November 10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare species of mammal that lays eggs is found in a forest in Indonesia","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-513079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519531,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513079\/revisions\/519531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513079"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=513079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}