✅ Yes, a baby platypus is called a 'puggle.' ✅ Yes, this photograph shows a puggle of sorts. ❌ However, the palm-sized animal pictured is not a platypus puggle.
that described the hand-held animal as an echidna puggle named Beau, who was housed at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Beau, an orphaned echidna puggle, first played on the internet’s heartstrings nearly a decade ago in November 2012, with the publication of zoo photographs of the spineless juvenile echidna.blog post
from Oct. 23, 2012, that noted Beau was around a month old at the time of his rescue and was found by hikers in New South Wales. A veterinarian nurse and “surrogate mum” to Beau said that she had not seen a puggle at such a young age in over 15 years due to the unique lifecycle of echidnas.
By February 2013, the “frail puggle” that had once been Beau grew into a fully spiked and brave echidna. “Beau’s become adventurous and now climbs out of the travelling box. When disturbed, the young echidna will flinch, curl up or dig into the dirt, which is exactly what echidnas do,” said echidna caretake Annabelle Sehlmeier in a blog post at the time. “Beau is very used to people and so will be staying at the Taronga Education Centre to meet visitors and students and help educate them about the wonders of our unique wildlife.
The wildlife hospital took care of another echidna puggle in November 2021 that was found alone and abandoned on a property, also in New South Wales. When Weja arrived, its eyes weren’t yet fully opened and its ears were still closed, according to another
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