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They have small ears and eyes, and a large bald nose. Their fur is thick and coarse and its colour varies from light brown to grey and black. The Flinders Island wombat is the smallest of the three subspecies at around 75 cm (30 in) in length, while the Tasmanian wombat averages 85 cm (33 in) and a weight of 20 kg (44 lb).
Wombat burrow and scat, Narawntapu National Park, Tasmania. Wombats have an extraordinarily slow metabolism, taking around 8 to 14 days to complete digestion, which aids their survival in arid conditions. [22] They generally move slowly. [31] Wombats defend home territories centred on their burrows, and they react aggressively to intruders.
A wombat digs with its fore claws while sitting up. [21] It leaves its new burrow backwards and pushes out soil with all its paws. [21] The central warren is surrounded by a circle of small, simple burrows 100–150 m from it. [19] The small burrows along the outer edges is where young wombats go when they are displaced from the central warren ...
The bare-nosed or common wombat is a marsupial closely related to koalas. Wombats have a stocky build with short, stubby legs and coarse tan, grey, or brown fur. They are the second-largest ...
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The fat reserves and low metabolic rate of this species permit northern hairy-nosed wombats to go without food for several days when food is scarce. Even when they do feed every day, it is only for 6 hours a day in the winter and 2 hours in the summer, significantly less than a similar-sized kangaroo, which feeds for at least 18 hours a day.
Take this baby wombat as an example. Animals of Tasmania shared a video in mid-June of a baby wombat trying to get its mom to play, and just by looking at mom you can tell she's exhausted!
Diprotodon is a marsupial in the order Diprotodontia, [d] suborder Vombatiformes (wombats and koalas), and infraorder Vombatomorphia (wombats and allies). It is unclear how different groups of vombatiformes are related to each other because the most-completely known members—living or extinct—are exceptionally derived (highly specialised forms that are quite different from their last common ...