Nikita Silcock was on her way home after work when movement on the road ahead of her caused her to slow down.

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She had noticed something blending into the white road markings in front of her.

"It was smack bang in the middle of the road ... it caught my eye because the line wasn't quite straight," she said.

"Then I saw it and I thought it was a cat at first, but then he just put his nose up and I kind of freaked out because I didn't really know what it was."

Ms Silcock soon realised she was stopped in front of a super-rare white echidna - an animal born with the gene mutation that alters pigmentation from the usual black or brown colour.

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