
Also known as Western long-nosed echidna, Long-nosed spiny anteater, New Guinea long-nosed echidna
species of echidna
Maximum longevity: 41.2 years (captivity) Observations: One captive specimen at the Toronga Zoo in Sydney was still alive at 41.2 years of age (Richard Weigl 2005).
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The western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijnii), also called Bruijin's long-beaked echidna, is one of the four extant echidnas and one of three species of Zaglossus that occurs in New Guinea. Originally described as Tachyglossus bruijnii, this is the type species of Zaglossus.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).