Echidna Jigsaw Puzzle Game

The Echidna of Australia and New Guinea is an animal similar in looks to a porcupine or spiny ant eater, where they have sharp needles on their backs to defend themselves. The echidna rolls up into a ball when threatened so that their belly is protected.

Echidnas are mammals yet lay an egg to have their young. The only other mammal to lay an egg also is the Australian Platypus, so they are a pretty unique animal. When the egg is layed it goes straight into the mothers pouch for hatching, which takes about 10 days. The baby echidna is called a puggle and lives in the mothers pouch suckling milk until it grows needles on its back.

Echidnas eating habits consists mainly of ants, insects and termites, with the occasional earthworm for a well balanced diet. They rip apart dead logs and branches seeking out the termites, and dig into ants nests where they use their long snouts to gobble up food with their long sticky tounge.

Echidnas are very shy animals and live solitary lives, only being with another echidna at mating time. If you are carful, they are easy to pick up, but you should wear protective gloves as the needles can give a sharp sting and cause local infection. Only handle echidnas in the wild if they are in danger, putting them into a bag is the best way to carry them from danger. Echidnas generally will not scratch and have no teeth to bite.

Easy Echidna Jigsaw Puzzle
Medium Echidna Jigsaw Puzzle
Hard Echidna Jigsaw Puzzle

Enjoy playing the echidna jigsaw puzzle which has been created in 3 playing levels. To play the jigsaw online, click the link to whatever level you desire and select "Run" from the dialogue box. Choose "Save As" to download for later use.