'Someone tell me how you eat it': Cruel moment an echidna is taunted with a stick as a man shouts in Arabic during the 'gutless attack'
- Sickening footage of a man taunting a defenceless echidna has emerged online
- A man can be hear saying in Arabic 'someone tell me how you eat it' in the video
- When the echidna curls up to protect itself the man flips it over and prods it
Disgusting footage of a man tormenting a defenceless echidna by prodding it with a stick has emerged online.
The 'gutless attack' sparked outrage when the footage was shared on Facebook by a Sydney man.
In the video, a man can be heard saying in Arabic 'someone tell me how you eat it' as he whacks the native animal with the large stick.
The gutless attack sparked outrage when the footage was shared on Facebook by a Sydney man
'Do they slaughter it? Do they shoot it?' he asks.
'I'm going to try and flip it.'
The echidna then curls up in a bid to protect itself.
'Now where are you trying to go? How are we going to take it home?' the man asks.
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After flipping the protected animal onto its back he then pokes it between its claw.
Animal activists have slammed the man, calling him cruel as the echidna had no way of protesting itself.
Sydney Wildlife co-ordinator Carolyn Martin told the Daily Telegraph it was a 'particularly gutless attack on a defenceless animal'.
After flipping the protected animal onto its back he then pokes it between its claw
'You can see this from the way he tried to flatten himself into the ground to protect his soft underbody.
'When the perpetrator eventually turns him over, his only means of protection was to try and fold his legs in.'
All native birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, but not including dingoes, are protected in NSW by the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.
If caught, the man could face a $22,000 fine.
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