Just when you thought echidna puggles could n't get any cuter one shown being cared for at Taronga Zoo in Sydney has upped the charm factor . A Taronga Zoo Wildlife Hospital Supervisor said it was only around 30 days old when it was brought in . Tiny , bald and has no spines , the puggle was found on a walking track at Anna Bay in the Hunter Region of New South Wales and taken to Taronga Zoo . ‘ It ’ s quite possible it fell out of it ’ s Mum ’ s pouch . It still would have been in Mum ’ s pouch at that time . When they get a bit older – 10 to 15 days older – they are left in a burrow , ' the Taronga Zoo Wildlife Hospital Supervisor explained in a zoo video . Scroll down for video . Eating out of the palm of your hand : The little echidna puggle tucks into some milk for its lunch . A Taronga Zoo Wildlife Hospital Supervisor takes the puggle out of an esky where it can be kept at the right temperature . Snack time : A few drops of milk from a syringe is all the puggle needs to fill its stomach . Bath time : The Wildlife Hospital Supervisor at Toronga Zoo cleans the tiny puggle . ‘ Mum only comes back then every few days to feed the puggle . At the moment I only have to feed this one every two days. ’ The puggle just sucked milk out of the palm of the Wildlife Hospital Supervisor ’ s hand as the mother echida does not have any teats only milk patches which the baby puggle drinks from . ‘ At the moment I ’ m keeping it in a small esky just to keep it at the right temperature . They actually have a very low temperature of 25-27 degrees . The esky is really good at keeping that constant temperature , ’ the Wildlife Hospital Supervisor said . The puggle is bathed and cleaned daily . At this age it is tiny , bald and has no spines . At the moment the small puggle only has to be fed every two days at the most . It ’ ll take a few months before it will look like an echidna . They normally don ’ t come out of the burrow for six to sevens months . ‘ It still needs a lot of tender loving care for the next few months yet , ’ she said . Being monotremes , echidnas produce young from eggs which are hatched outside their body , in the same way as birds and most reptiles . Young echidnas are often not fully weaned until they are at least several months old . Although they begin to eat termites and ants soon after leaving the pouch , young echidnas are often not fully weaned until they are several months old . Echidnas evolved between 20 and 50 million years ago , descending from a platypus-like creatures . This ancestor was aquatic , but echidnas adapted to life on land . It will take a few months yet before the puggle will start looking like an echidna .
A puggle found on a walking track at Anna Bay in the Hunter Region of New South Wales was taken to Taronga Zoo . It was only around 30 days old so it needed to be cared for by zoo staff on a daily basis . The puggle sucked up milk out of the palm of a Wildlife Hospital Supervisor ’ s hand at the zoo . An esky was used as its new home so it could be kept at the right body temperature all the time .