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There are three species of wombat - * Common Wombat - Vombatus ursinis * Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat - Lasiorhinus latifrons * Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat - Lasiorhinus krefftii
The Northern hairy-nosed wombat is in a lot of trouble and is considered one of the rarest animals in the world. Wombats are a mostly nocturnal herbivorous marsupial mammal and live in burrows. They are the largest herbivorous burrowing animals in the world. They have a stout body, blunt head and broad paws with strong claws making it a powerful earth-mover, burrowing up to 2 metres a night. A typical burrow is about 50 cm high and 50 cm wide and can be up to 30 metres long with several chambers including nursery burrows. A wombat warns off intruders with an aggressive display of head shaking, gnashing teeth and a guttural growl. Burrows provide wombats with protection from predators, weather and bushfires. A predator following a wombat into its burrow can be crushed against the roof by the wombat's powerful rump, however, a wombat will abandon the burrow if a snake moves in. When wombats are resting in a burrow, their metabolism slows to two-thirds of normal to conserve water and energy.
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How do you do the If I'm a wombat are you a wombat joke?
Here is the way the joke works:You and some (probably bored) friends are in a car, or a house, and you ask questions about various people or objects, asking if something about them makes them a wombat. The key is that unless you begin the question with a certain phrase (usually "listen" but it can be "okay" or "look"), the answer is "No, he/it is not a wombat." If the phrase is used, then "Yes, he/it is a wombat."Variations include: "if this is a wombat, and this is a wombat" where the two things (or people) are similar in some way, then is a third thing/person a wombat? Again, it takes awhile before everyone catches on.
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The Common Wombat's burrow tends to be anywhere between one metre and eight metres in length. The Southern Hairy Nosed wombat tend to dig a burrow between 10 and 20 metres in length. The Northern Hairy Nosed wombat has a burrow of similar length to its Southern cousin, although some burrows in the Northern Hairy Nosed wombat's habitat of Epping Forest in Queensland have been measured at ninety metres in length.
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The conservation status of the northern hairy-nosed wombat is Critically Endangered, whilst the common wombat and the southern hairy-nosed wombat species are not threatened.The Common Wombat is listed showing a status of "least concern" with a population trend of "stable". The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is also listed, with a status of "least concern" but with a population trend of "unknown".For more details, please see sites listed below.
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