Echidna Encounter
Artwork Description
Australia is home to some of the most unique, unusual, and simply strange creatures. This is certainly one of them! Along with the Platypus, Echidnas are the only egg-laying mammals in the world, known as monotremes.This drawing was inspired by a real encounter with a wild Echidna. He had surprised us completely - we turned a corner and there he was on the path ahead! He sniffed the air, and waddled right toward us. He looked up right at us, curious - then slowly turned, backed off, and bulldozed his way through the underbrush on the other side of the path and out of our sight. "Bulldozed" really is the best way to describe the motion - the Echidna was in no hurry, carving a tunnel for himself through the branches and grasses, behind some bushes, and soon even the rustle of branches crackling behind him faded. This is his forest.