About Attenborough's long-beaked echidna:
- It is also known as Sir David's long-beaked echidna or the Cyclops long-beaked echidna. It is named in honour of naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
- It is one of three species from the genus Zaglossusthat inhabits the island of New Guinea. It is the smallest echidna species.
- Habitat: It lives in the Cyclops Mountains, which are near the cities of Sentani and Jayapura in the Indonesian province of Papua.
- Echidnas are nocturnal and shy, making them difficult to find at the best of times.
- It appears so unlike other mammals is because it is a member of the monotremes -- an egg-laying group that separated from the rest of the mammal tree-of-life about 200 million years ago.
- Conservation status
- IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered
- CITES : Appendix II
