Also at Lone Pine were wombats!! Wombats are awesome.
Wombats are burrowers and when Australia was first settled, they were mistaken for badgers! They are HUGE! Wombats weigh between 44 and 77 pounds and surprisingly for their size and lumbering nature, they are also fast! Wombats can run up to 40 kph or about 25 mph for up to 90 seconds!! It's the cheetah of the underground world!!
This video will tell you all about wombats and their underground mazes (plus give you a look at how they protect themselves and what a baby looks like).
Wombats are also marsupials. Unbeknownst to the average on-looker, wombats have a pouch like their cousins but strangely it's backwards! This is so that while digging they don't kick dirt into it.
Wombats are vegetarians and eat lots of roots and vegetation, however, a few animals eat them too. Dingos and Tasmanian Devils are their main predators.
Wombats are burrowers and when Australia was first settled, they were mistaken for badgers! They are HUGE! Wombats weigh between 44 and 77 pounds and surprisingly for their size and lumbering nature, they are also fast! Wombats can run up to 40 kph or about 25 mph for up to 90 seconds!! It's the cheetah of the underground world!!
This video will tell you all about wombats and their underground mazes (plus give you a look at how they protect themselves and what a baby looks like).
Wombats are also marsupials. Unbeknownst to the average on-looker, wombats have a pouch like their cousins but strangely it's backwards! This is so that while digging they don't kick dirt into it.
Wombats are vegetarians and eat lots of roots and vegetation, however, a few animals eat them too. Dingos and Tasmanian Devils are their main predators.
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