The Wombat: Common Wombats in AustraliaEvolution - Distribution - Characteristics - Burrows - Behaviour - Reproduction - Dangers and diseases_ |
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The drying up of the land | 4 |
CHAPTER TWO THE WOMBAT FAMILY | 12 |
CHAPTER FOUR BURROWS | 24 |
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adult wombat animals Archer and Clayton Australian Mammals Bass Strait body temperature bush bushfires centimetres chikkering claws clearfelled Common Wombat digestive digging dingo Diprotodon dogs and dingoes ears ecology entrance feeding female fence Figure forest foxes front paws grass grazing ground habitat hand-reared wombats head hind legs home range incisors kangaroos koala Lasiorhinus leaves the pouch major burrow male mammals marsupials medium burrow metres metres long milk molars months old mother moves National Parks night number of wombats occasionally orphan wombat parasites Parks and Wildlife plumber's snake pouch young probably rabbits rear rubbing post rump scats scent scratch side skin sleep slope soil sometimes South Australia South Wales Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat species Sydney Tasmania teat thylacine traps trees tunnels urine usually Victoria Vombatidae Vombatus ursinus wallabies weaning wombat burrows wombat Vombatus ursinus wombats living young at heel young wombat Zoogeography