What is a fact about a wombat?

Answer 1

There are many interesting facts about wombats.

• The wombat is often nicknamed "the bulldozer of the bush" because it does not go around objects if it can find a way through or under them.
• Wombats are nocturnal.
• The young of a wombat is called a joey.
• The female has a backward-opening pouch to protect the joey when the mother digs her burrow, so the dirt does not fly in.
• Wombats have a fairly slow metabolism, and they feed on grasses and sedges.
• The wombat's closest living relative is the koala.
• The wombat has extra tough, thick skin on its lower back. Because a wombat's burrow is only just big enough for the wombat itself to fit into, in the event of a dog or dingo attack, it will turn around and present only that thicker hide to the aggressor, a hide that is difficult for a dingo's teeth to penetrate.
• Their droppings are cube-shaped and are better known as scats.
• The purpose in having cube shaped scats is so that the wombat can better mark its territory. Wombats leave scats to mark their territory atop rocks and logs, and cube shaped scats are less likely to roll away from the wombat's territory.

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Answer 2

No. The pouch is backwards facing and underneath. The gestation period of a wombat is 30 days resulting in a single, bean-sized, 1 gram offspring. The joey is blind and crawls from the birth canal, following the smell of its mother's milk into the backwards facing pouch. For the next 7-8 months, the joey is completely dependent on its mother, even for warmth since it cannot control its own body temperature. The joey leaves the pouch permanently at about 10 months, but stays with its mother for a further 5-10 months.

Answer 3

All wombat species have a backwards opening pouch which protects the joey from dirt while the mother is burrowing.