{"id":409,"date":"2015-05-29T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/?p=409"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:12:35","slug":"hump-day-facts-15-the-echidna-love-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/hump-day-facts-15-the-echidna-love-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Hump Day Facts #15: Echidna love train"},"content":{"rendered":"

Male echidnas are a committed bunch. During mating season they can be found trailing behind a female echidna in what’s referred to as a ‘love train’.<\/p>\n

\"Echidna\"<\/a>

Image c\/o Jurgen Otto, Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

Unlike many other species, there’s no aggression, no punch-ons, no nasty or ‘sharp’ retorts (pun intended).<\/p>\n

\"Echidna\"<\/a>

Image c\/o Frankzed, Flicker<\/p><\/div>\n

Instead, the males are well behaved and wait patiently for their chosen female, who happily forages for food.<\/p>\n

\"Echidna\"<\/a>

Image c\/o Peter Ostergaard, Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

Amazingly, the ‘crescendo’ to the six-week-long courtship takes place on Wednesdays only … Hump Day. Literally!<\/p>\n

\"Echidna\"<\/a>

Image c\/o Ms Voren, Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

Echidna\u2019s are Australia\u2019s most widely distributed mammal, and they are most regularly seen on our\u00a0Kangaroo Island tours.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Echidnas really take Hump Day literally!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[93,95,66,11],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","tag-echidna","tag-kangaroo-island","tag-south-australia","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}