A pair of short-beaked echidnas, born at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, are ready to steal hearts.
This video, shot on Nov. 30, features the adorable puggles at between 90 and 100 days old.
The zoo said the baby echidnas, known as puggles, were hatched to two separate mothers in August, and one of them was hand-reared, as it was not taking milk from its mother.
The duo were the seventh and eighth of the species born under the zoo’s ongoing breeding and conservation programme and could contribute to the “conservation of the critically-endangered long-beaked echidna found in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia,” Taronga Conservation Society’s Director of Wildlife Conservation and Science Simon Duffy said.
Guy Dixon/Taronga Zoo via Storyful
