Mammals from other countries

17002-01102 Eastern Long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bartoni daimondi) adult foraging at night in montane forest. Long-beaked echidnas are the largest of the surviving monotremes. With four subspecies, this is the largest. It also has the widest remaining distribution, extending from the western side of the Panai Lakes in Irian Jaya, along the central mountains to the Kratke Range in the eastern highlands of Papua, New Guinea. It can occur from as low as 1300m, up to 4,500m in the Carstenz Range, where its preferred habitat now seems to be inaccessible alpine meadows. Once local hunting practises protected it in lower areas, but it has become rare, even locally extinct as traditional beliefs give way to modern hunting practises. Papua New Guinea *

01102Long beakedechidnaZaglossusbartonidiamondiCentral CordilleraNew Guinea