What is a wombat?
By ronaldinu
@ronaldinu (12422)
Malta
February 28, 2010 9:10am CST
When I was going to travel to Australia last December, my Aussie friends were telling me about the rich Australian wild life, all about the koalas, kangaroos and wombats. Although I had some knowledge about the first two, wombat was an alien species for me. Unfortunately you can see a lot of them hit in the road, dead in the countryside at the edge of the road.
I find it hard to describe them, they are short legged about 1 metre in length. If you dlike further information about wombats here is a very informative one. http://www.wombat.echidna.id.au/wombat1.htm
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
28 Feb 10
Hi, ronaldinu!
I don't think a lot of people have a clue what they are. I looked it up many, many years ago, when a friend called just about everyone she didn't like that. The appeal, I think, is in the silly-sounding name they carry!
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
28 Feb 10
I did not know wombat until I saw one last december. :)
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@derek_a (10873)
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28 Feb 10
I remember watching a TV drama where a family has a womabat as a pet. It was walking around their apartment and at one time it was up on the table sniffing around for something to eat. It's like the Australian hedgehog without the spines. Because it is hedgehogs that are often getting flattened and killed on our roads here in the UK. 
_Derek
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
28 Feb 10
unfortunately you ll find the odd hedgehog flattened too in the maltese countryside, few of those left here.
@derek_a (10873)
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28 Feb 10
Yes, it is so sad. They are great over here in the garden because they eat up all the slugs and snail that munch on the plants. We have two or three in our garden. I took one to the recycling centre once by mistake. He'd crawled into one of the garden recycling refuse for a sleep. I brough him back home though. I think he is in hibernation at the moment. I have a pile of sticks and leaves that I leave in the corner for them to shelter in. 
_Derek
_Derek
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
2 Mar 10
Thanks for attaching a wombat photo. Have you ever seen one in real?
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
28 Feb 10
hi ronaldinu they are sort of cute like a over exaggeration of a large
little pekingese dog, If I am not mistaken they are a marsuphial too.
I read that information in a quick scan so am going back to read it
'as it should be read, thanks for the information.
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
2 Mar 10
Hi Hatley thanks for your contribution... It does not look exactly like a dog... just look at the picture attached. It was taken at melbourne zoo.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
2 Mar 10
They had wombats at the Los Angeles zoo, but they rarely came out of their holes. That's one animal where they probably should have had an underground exhibit like they did with the prairie dogs!
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
2 Mar 10
It seems that those at Melbourne behaved like the ones at Los Angeles. It was hard for me to get a best shot of them.
@alexysabelle (905)
• Philippines
1 Mar 10
wombats? like woman bats? can they fly? ate they nocturnal too? wombats hmmmnnnn...
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
2 Mar 10
LOL not exactly.... you can look at the photo to have a peek of it.
@alexysabelle (905)
• Philippines
4 Mar 10
am just trying to be stupid. i am trying to find something to perk up my boring day. been low lately.
thanks for the comment...
take care...
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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28 Feb 10
Hi ronaldinu,
Awwww! the wombat looked so cute, I used to was an Australian soap many years ago, called County Pratice and one of the doctors used to have an wombat called Fatso, the wombat wanded round the practise and everyone used to fuss with him, he had his own charactor.
Tamara
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
28 Feb 10
I don;'t know what this one was called but I have taken this photo at melbourne zoo
