I like wombatts and I cannot lie
Southern hairy-nosed wombats reclaim the Nullarbor: "When the rabbit plagues came through in the 19th century, they absolutely decimated the wombat population," Dr Swinbourne said. "And now that the rabbits are sort of under effective control, the wombats are coming back and starting to reclaim all that lost territory."
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"They're one of the most arid-adapted animals in the world. They are better adapted to the desert than a camel.
A whole issue of Australian Mammology dedicated to this noble marsupial: Wombats Through Time and Space, edited by the same Dr Swinbourne, who is clearly a mega-fan of wombatts. Two of the articles are even open-access!
Looking at the various wombattologists involved there, I wonder if there are internecine squabbles over the relative merits of the Northern and Southern hairy-nosed and the common or barenosed species.
And scientists solve the mystery of why wombats have cube-shaped poo: [O]ne theory was that wombats, with their strong sense of smell, communicate with each other via faeces and that the cube shape helps prevent the faeces from rolling away.
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