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An Echidna s Focus

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Nov 08, 2009

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Author : Rashid Kotwal

There are two parts to this story,

First the Echidna in our back yard For those of you who don't live in Australia, an echidna is a sort of hedgehog with an Australian twist It is a so called monotreme, or an egg laying mammal, one of only two species left in the world

Take a look at the video we took and watch total focus and persistence in action as the echidna goes about vacuuming up ants into its very specialised snout

http://www youtube com/watch?v=dhSSSu47ONk

What's remarkable is it's a small animal weighing around 7kg that literally lifted and pushed 3 rocks which weigh around 12kg each off our dry stone wall to get to the ants which it then guzzled down

And the second part is about Liza Minnelli, a performer who's also demonstrated tremendous focus and persistence throughout her career

From coming out from the shadow of her famous mother, Judy Garland to failed marriages, alcohol and drug abuse, and a physical condition where doctors predicted that she would be bound to a wheel chair for the rest of her life

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