ABC Wednesday, W is for Wombat

She was so lazy, that she had no intention to move!

Another interesting Australian animal is the wombat, which you see here in the arms of her carer. She is a marsupial as are many Australian animals. Her pouch is backward facing, for wombats dig their burrows and if the pouch was facing upwards,  it  would be contaminated by dirt and sand during digging.
Thirty days after mating the wombat female gives birth to a bean-sized baby weighing one gram. The baby uses its front legs to drag itself into the pouch, where it stays between six and ten months.
An adult Common Wombat may   weigh between 22 and 40 kg. It is a nocturnal animal, spending two-thirds of its life underground, emerging to eat grass and other plants. The wombat we saw one night near our holiday house, was very slow and didn't even attempt to run away.

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