What will a wombat look like?

Answer 1

Wombats are herbivorous 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.

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.

Answer 2

When a koala is first born, it resembles a kidney bean. Less than 2cm long, it is hairless, earless and blind.

Most of a joey's (baby koala's) development takes place in the mother's pouch. As it grows, it begins to actually look like a koala. By the time the young koala is old enough to crawl out of its mother's pouch, it is a miniature replica of its parents.

Answer 3

Young wombats look just like mature wombats only smaller. New born wombats are about the size of a bean and weigh one gram. They look like little pink lima beans with legs, and have no fur.

Answer 4

Apart from the fact that male and female wombats have different reproductive organs, they do look essentially the same. Females are slightly heavier than males.