Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Nov. 7 (UPI) -- An Australian driver's dashboard camera captured the moment traffic in both directions was stopped by an unusual pedestrian -- an elusive echidna. The video, filmed Saturday on a stretch of road in the Canberra area, shows cars stopping in both directions as a small creature scuttles across the road. Advertisement The filmer said the animal was an echidna, a famously elusive egg-laying mammal. "On our way home, we saw something crossing the road and slowed. It turned out to be a cute little echidna, which is an Australian native spiny anteater. I've lived here ten years and it's the first time we've seen one in the wild, never mind crossing the road in the middle of the day! What was impressive was the way the drivers coming in the opposite direction also stopped to let the little guy finish crossing the road," the filmer wrote. Read More Australian woman surrounded by 'echidna love train'
