Short-beaked Echidna | Kids Heavy Cotton™ Tee Color:Irish Green Salties are surprisingly good swimmers

Salties are surprisingly good swimmers and can travel vast distances in the ocean

equipped with a long sticky tongue

Found in the arid regions of central Australia

but as an adult

and in doing so

Short-beaked Echidna | Kids Heavy Cotton™ Tee Color:Irish Green Salties are surprisingly good swimmersThe short beaked echidna is one of Australias most wonderfully weird mammals covered in sharp spines, equipped with a long sticky tongue, and capable of laying eggs despite being a mammal. Found right across the country, from bushland to alpine regions, it uses its powerful claws to tear into ant and termite nests, slurping up thousands of insects in a single meal. When threatened, it simply digs straight down or curls into a spiky ball, making