An avid ant-eater, it’s spiny and brown
Echidna keeps its careful gaze cast down
With a moving shield of pale-hued spear
It strolls untouched by predators’ fear
Also seldom in hurry, it does not fight
Yet capable of vanishing from open sight.
Egg-laying mammal with a sensitive nose
It snuffles where the ant or termite goes
With claws that breach the hardest clay
It can find its ensconced insect prey
Its long tongue darts out, highly skilled
An inhabitant of the Australian woodland.
An ancient form unchanged with time
Be it the arid dust or the northern clime
Elongated snout is an engineering marvel
To hunt down prey hidden in wood or soil
It trusts the earth to be its fortress & friend
And builds a kingdom there without end.
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