Wombat

Wombat - a representative of the marsupial mammals. Large and clumsy, thereof up to a meter and weighing up to forty pounds, animal resembles its habits badger. Dig it long, up to 40 meters, the hole.

It feeds on plant food. Different types of wombats live in the western and eastern Australia, including the island of Tasmania , where, as we know, inhabited by many strange animals that are found nowhere else.

That wombat-animal bizarre, which probably could only appear in this wonderful country.

Chubby cute little animal with short legs with long claws sharp great excavation, conducting most of their lives underground. Here he produces his own food, escape enemies.

They say the biggest copper deposits were found by these diggers. Just once people saw that near the burrows excavated animals   scattered pieces of metal, and started digging. The result exceeded all expectations ...

Strictly speaking, the enemies in the wombat is not so much: a wild dingo and people. After Europeans settled Australia, the hunt for the animals, the destruction of their habitats. As a result of several subspecies of these animals to date are considered extinct (as a marsupial wolf ), but in a small reserve in Kvislende population of just over one hundred species of another kvislendskogo wombat, which no longer exist in nature.

It is believed that the wombat appeared on earth more than 15,000 years ago. And his closest relatives - koalas, koala.

In food Zverko prefer vegetable food, love the young shoots of grasses , eat plant roots, moss, mushrooms and berries.

Cute animal well-tamed by man. Smart, good-natured, affectionate wombat gets along well with the owner, so Australians are pets, wombat home - not a rarity.

Awkward-looking, wombat may in danger of speeds up to 40 km per hour.