Puggles snuggle down in Sydney after rare echidna zoo births

This hand out photo released by the Taronga Zoo on November 17, 2016 shows a keeper carrying a baby puggle in Sydney. -AFP/Taronga Zoo/Paul FAHY

SYDNEY: Sydney’s Taronga Zoo is celebrating its first successful echidna births in 30 years with three healthy babies, known as puggles, from three different mums hatching within days of each other.

Echidnas, or spiny anteaters, are notoriously difficult to breed in human care, but keepers at the zoo are pleased with the progress of the tiny trio and first-time mothers Ganyi, Spike and Pitpa.