Echidna Survives The Bushfire
Meet our echidna who visits us regularly – we decided to call him Eric. We saw the echidna in the first couple of weeks after the bushfire. He survived and as echidna food (ants) were plentiful after the bushfire it provided him with plenty to eat. The ants after the bushfire were amazing and they took full advantage of the abundance of eucalypt seed that was all over the ground dropped by the tall trees in the couple of weeks after the bushfire event.We have seen Eric the echidna many times again since the spring following the bushfire. We never see echidnas over the winter due to echidnas going into a kind of semi-hibernation called torpor through the colder months to conserve their energy.
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