ECHIDNA

by Zac
English Name: Echidna
Scientific Name: Tachyglossus aculeatus
Arrernte Name: inarlenge
Luritja Name: tjilkamata

DESCRIPTION
The echidna has a lot of black and white spikes. It burrows into the ground to get water. Sometimes the echidna sleeps in the ground. You can see the spikes coming out of the ground. The Echidna eats ants. It has to dig into the ant hill .

HABITAT
The echidna lives near hills and in woodlands.

HUNTING AND COOKING
You need to cut the chest open. Because it has a lot of spikes on its back. You gut the echidna and pull out the milk guts. And close it up with a wooden skewer. Make a hollow sort of coals. And get the coals and put them on the echidna's spikes (dig a hole and put the echidna in first) so the spikes are easier to scrape off. Then you scrape off the spikes with an axe. After the spikes have been removed you cook the echidna in a round hole in hot earth.